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From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: question why need open /dev/console in init() when starting kernel
To: Tomko <tomko@avantwave.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:06:53 +0200
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Tomko <tomko@avantwave.com> wrote:

> Do anyone know why it need to open("/dev/console"....) at the end of the
> init() before calling execve("/sbin/init") ? Why open this for the in ,
> out , err channel at this moment but not open it at the time when going
> to use , e.g. open it in the shell .

How is the shell supposed to know which files to open, or if it's supposed
to open files at all?
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