Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:01:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? Message-ID: <XFMail.20020926120139.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15763.8701.497010.29864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 26-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mark Murray writes: > > Hi > > > > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD > > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12). > > > > Any objections to my committing this? > > I object. > > Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial > console. With devfs this means that /dev/ttyv[1-N] do not exist and > getty bitches like this: > > Sep 26 11:00:11 monet getty[543]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory > > Its an incredible pain in the ass to get spammed by these things on a > 9600 baud serial console while you're editing ttys to turn the damned > things off. I don't want to have to have 4 more lines of spam to > deal with when installing a new server. > > If you also fix getty to silently ignore the problem and go to sleep > forever, then I withdraw my objection. Index: init.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sbin/init/init.c,v retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -r1.51 init.c --- init.c 3 Aug 2002 16:21:33 -0000 1.51 +++ init.c 26 Sep 2002 15:56:57 -0000 @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ * then don't add the device to the session list. */ if ((fd = open(sp->se_device, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK, 0)) < 0) { - if (errno == ENXIO) { + if (errno == ENXIO || errno == ENOENT) { free_session(sp); return (0); } (Maybe we should detect devfs somewhere else and use || devfs_present && errno == ENOENT) instead.) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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