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SubjectRe: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm
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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