Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:03:39 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: consolechars switches tty since 8b92e87 vt: add an event interface |
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> [ In Debian before the end of the S runlevel (boot) console-screen.sh > is executed (it is not the last script though), where consolechars is > used for loading console screen font for each tty. In my case it > evaluates to: > > /usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/ttyX -f lat0-sun16 > > Similarly consolechars is used in setupcon script invoked by > console-setup (processed after console-screen.sh) to set a font chosen > by user. ] > > The problem is that since 8b92e87 running consolechars switches tty to > the one provided with --tty option. Last commit I have tested, > a9366e6, is still affected.
That is a suprise as the code shouldn't be changing the behaviour of any application unless something happened to rely on the race it fixed. Even then I wouldn't expect what you see.
What does an strace of that command look like so I can see what ioctls it issues and in what order.
Alan
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