Comment 36 for bug 1669578

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Christian Brauner (cbrauner) wrote : Re: [Bug 1669578] Re: Get ttyname() to work properly in containers

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Christian Brauner
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> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Christian Brauner
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> This version of screen doesn't work in containers for me anymore.
>
> @LocutusOfBorg, nevermind I tested this on Xenial which doesn't seem
> to come with a version of glibc the path that Serge and I wrote. The
> screen version you built with my patches included work on patched
> glibc versions inside containers. From my testing with the version you
> build including my patches attaching to older fifo-based screen
> sessions works and new ones are all socket-based. Thanks!

Fwiw, I'd like to see the glibc patch Serge and I wrote SRUed into Xenial
(and if not already done) glibc since this is likely what most users currently
use as images in their containers. @Adam, is this something we can do?