Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:41:08 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:00:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
Good point. So, should we do it in the kernel, in call_usermodehelper, so that all users of this function get it correct, or should I do it in userspace, in the /sbin/hotplug program?
Any opinions?
thanks,
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