Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:03:47 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <17734.1149012227@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 May 2006 13:58:14 EDT." <20060530135814.A70588@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In message <20060530135814.A70588@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin wri tes: >Poul-Henning Kamp [phk@phk.freebsd.dk] wrote: >> I would like to redefine the semantics of "/dev/console" as follows: >> >> if any console-consumers like xconsole(8) are active >> send output to all console-consumers. >> else if a controlling terminal is available >> send output to controlling terminal (that is /dev/tty) >> else >> send output to syslogd, as if generated by printf(9). >> (but do not actually output to low-level console) > >If there is nobody logged in, where do kernel messages from device >drivers, and panic messages (with helpful things like KDB_TRACE) wind >up? These go to the #2 console just like the bootup messages etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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