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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:51:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006155145.GB10153@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410061731480.20160@waterleaf.sonytel.be>

On Wed, 6 October 2004 17:36:17 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> OK, so you want /dev/console to fall back to /dev/null, right?

In short, yes.  I want fds 0, 1 and 2 to be open for any userspace
process on startup.  That's partly init's job, partly also the
kernel's job.  And /dev/null is a sane fallback.

> Anyway, I should cook up a patch so the /dev/console demux walks the list if
> the one at the head of the list doesn't do input (read: it has no associated
> tty struct).

Good.

Jörn

-- 
A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle.
-- Sun Tzu

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 18:52 Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 20:27 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 21:06   ` Greg KH
2004-10-05 21:13     ` Russell King
2004-10-06 15:00       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 17:41         ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:01           ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:18             ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:20               ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:26             ` Chris Wright
2004-10-06 18:16           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 19:18           ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 20:54             ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 20:29               ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 21:45                 ` Russell King
2004-10-07  5:51                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-08  2:15                   ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-06 20:01           ` Russell King
2004-10-05 22:36   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06  6:43     ` Russell King
2004-10-07 14:41   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-05 21:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-06  4:34   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-06  8:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 12:15       ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 13:33           ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:55             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 14:12               ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 14:23                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:28                   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 15:36                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:51                       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2004-10-05 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 12:16   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 17:38 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:04   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:19     ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:23       ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 21:22         ` Thayne Harbaugh
2004-10-07  8:18           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-07  9:07             ` Russell King
2004-10-07  9:46               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 18:37 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-10-06 19:08   ` Jörn Engel

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