[BRLTTY] Console open error on recent Arch Linux

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hi,

On 2025-10-12 at 06:41 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
 > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/10/01 at 11:13 +0300]

 > >Would this work?
 > >
 > >1) Start BRLTTY as root.
 > >2) unshare. Detach from the common mounts namespace.
 > >3) Mount private tmpfs. Only BRLTTY process has access to this file system.
 > >4) Create necessary device nodes in this private file system. Not all device
 > >nodes need to be created, only those for which cannot be accessed from /dev
 > >directly.
 > >5) Switch user to brltty and drop all privileges.
 > >6) Once BRLTTY exits or is killed, the mount namespace becomes empty and the
 > >tmpfs is cleaned up.

 > Please test the latest development code to see if this is working as you expect.

I have been running this code now for a few days and everything works well —
BRLTTY is again running as an unprivileged user.

Thank you very much and apologies for the delay in reporting!

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AUra