[BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Wed Nov 26 00:04:49 UTC 2025


[quoted lines by Alexander Epaneshnikov on 2025/11/26 at 01:11 +0300]

>On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 12:02:49AM +0200, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Then let's figure it out. We don't want a less secure fix and the latest brltty does indeed, as described above, have a secure fix for the problem.

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