[BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 12:02:49AM +0200, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> On 2025-11-25 at 16:39 -0500, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>  > [quoted lines by Alexander Epaneshnikov on 2025/11/26 at 00:14 +0300]
>
>  > >this change was done by systemd in commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/a4d1891475
>
>  > I don't know how to read that link. Could you, perhaps, please post the diff?
>
> From the command line you can do:
>
> $ git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd
> $ cd systemd
> $ git show a4d1891475
>
> Access to terminals for was restricted due to general security considerations.
>
>  > >I pushed fix to archlinux brltty package
>  > >https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/brltty/-/commit/fcb9ae5937575e1df759db92fc828ed76c7586eb
>
>  > Does systemd now maintain service units for brltty?
>
> No, this modifies Arch's BRLTTY package.
>
> I want to remind people that upstream BRLTTY already fixes this issue (and
> potentially others as well) in a very secure way, by creating devices in a
> separate mount namespace. In my opinion this is a very good (secure) way to
> grant BRLTTY access to special devices.

I think this dosn't work for me.

> --
> Aura
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Sincerely, Alexander