Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:23:03 +0200 (MEST) | From | Clifford Wolf <> | Subject | Re: Flexible Console open (really little patch) |
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On 18 Aug 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980817222954.25345J-100000@babylon.clifford.at>, > Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> wrote: > > >No - the idea is more to make it possible for the user to see all the > >warning messages generated by the boot scripts - so he can turn the option > >on. There is another point for allowing /etc/console: if the kernel opens > >/etc/console instead of /dev/console it's possible to unmount /dev from > >the single-user-mode (if you use /etc/console as tty). If one uses > >/dev/console, the device would be busy as long as init runs - so one could > >never unmount /dev (e.g. to see what's in /dev/ if devfs is not mounted). > > Init reopens /dev/console every time it needs to write something or > when it spawns a child. It doesn't keep /dev/console opened. > > Mike.
Hmmm - my init doesn't. Anyway: I will hack my init programm - forget the patch. I still like the idea - but i can live without /etc/console support in the kernel too ...
- clifford
PS: Linus - please apply just this patch to linux/CREDITS - thx:
--- CREDITS.old Sun Aug 16 17:49:47 1998 +++ CREDITS Tue Aug 18 07:36:49 1998 @@ -1954,6 +1954,14 @@ S: Wayville SA 5034 S: Australia
+N: Clifford Wolf +E: god@clifford.at +W: http://www.clifford.at/ +D: Menuconfig/lxdialog improvement +S: Foehrengasse 16 +S: A-2333 Leopoldsdorf b. Wien +S: Austria + N: Roger E. Wolff E: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl D: Written kmalloc/kfree -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Clifford Wolf magnet - Internet at Work IRC: efnet / clifford Director of System Development http://www.clifford.at/ e-mail: c.wolf@magnet.at email: god@clifford.at
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