Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:01:14 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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?
If we're going to use /dev/console, how about we re-use what Jorn has for opening the console when starting init(8) ?
(Appologies Jorn - I'm not on a machine which allows me to type foreign characters, or even cut'n'paste atm.)
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