Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:51:45 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable |
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On Wed, 6 October 2004 17:36:17 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > OK, so you want /dev/console to fall back to /dev/null, right?
In short, yes. I want fds 0, 1 and 2 to be open for any userspace process on startup. That's partly init's job, partly also the kernel's job. And /dev/null is a sane fallback.
> Anyway, I should cook up a patch so the /dev/console demux walks the list if > the one at the head of the list doesn't do input (read: it has no associated > tty struct).
Good.
Jörn
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