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.)
--
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