Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:00:23 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2004-10-05 at 22:13, Russell King wrote: > I'm redirecting them in the /sbin/hotplug script to something sane, > but I think the kernel itself should be directing these three fd's > to somewhere whenever it invokes any user program, even if it is > /dev/null.
Someone should yes. There are lots of fascinating things happen when hotplug opens a system file, it gets assigned fd 2 and then we write to stderr.
> I think Alan disagrees with me, but I think the history that these > types of problems _keep_ cropping up over and over is proof enough > that it's necessary for sane userspace.
Userspace to userspace execution is quite precisely defined. What happens for kernel->userspace isn't so I have no problem with the kernel attaching hotplug to the system console. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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