Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:38:55 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm |
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CC'ing Lennart.
Am 22.07.2013 11:45, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> [1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012152.html > > ... and the patches were rejected. Lennart says that UML providing > /dev/tty* is wrong, and that UML should call them /dev/hvc* (or > something). Can we do something about the situation? Can we remove > /dev/tty*, and provide /dev/hvc*? Will we be breaking existing users? > > Thanks. > > Lennart Poettering wrote: >> UML shouldn't be penalized for not implementing some terminal emulation, >> but it should be penalized for doing so under the label of "VT support", >> which it simply is not providing. >> >> They can call their ttys any way they want. If the call them >> /dev/tty[1..64] however, then they need to implement the VC >> interfaces. All of them.
Lennart, can you please explain us why /dev/tty[1..64] is forced to have virtual console support?
Thanks, //richard
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