Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:21:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: consolechars switches tty since 8b92e87 vt: add an event interface | From | Przemysław Pawełczyk <> |
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2009/11/15 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: >> 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.
# strace /usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/tty2 -f lat0-sun16 [ snip ] open("/dev/tty2", O_RDWR) = 3 ioctl(3, KDGKBTYPE, 0x7fff042a0177) = 0 [ snip ] ioctl(3, KDFONTOP, 0x7fff042a0150) = 0 [ snip ] fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(4, 2), ...}) = 0 ioctl(3, VT_GETSTATE, 0x7fff042a0130) = 0 ioctl(3, VIDIOC_G_COMP or VT_ACTIVATE, 0x2) = 0 ioctl(3, VIDIOC_S_COMP or VT_WAITACTIVE, 0x2) = 0 ioctl(3, PIO_UNIMAPCLR, 0x7fff042a0160) = 0 ioctl(3, PIO_UNIMAP, 0x7fff042a0730) = 0 ioctl(3, VIDIOC_G_COMP or VT_ACTIVATE, 0x1) = 0 ioctl(3, VIDIOC_S_COMP or VT_WAITACTIVE, 0x1) = 0 exit_group(0)
And by switching tty I mean what is meant by switching tty manually, i.e. the result of pressing Alt+Fx under x86. Just to clarify.
I have one thing to add. It looks like that is not fully deterministic behavior, at least not at f278a2f^ I'm using now. Occasionally tty isn't switched. I wasn't aware of this before.
I just booted that f278a2f^ (i.e. 569ec4c) while consolechars were limited only to console-setup script, but this time tty1 remained on the screen and I didn't get "INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error" I was seeing before. I'm not sure whether it is relevant here.
> Alan
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