From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 29 3:40:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F2914F9E; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 03:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9C01C03; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:40:35 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Bruce Evans Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 ttys src/etc/etc.alpha ttys In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans of "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 14:43:33 +1100." Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:40:35 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000129114035.3A9C01C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > > obrien 2000/01/28 16:50:21 PST > > > > Modified files: > > etc/etc.i386 ttys > > etc/etc.alpha ttys > > Log: > > * Use `console' rather than `ttyv0' so there will always be a getty on > > the console reguardless of the type of console. > > * Make the Alpha version match the i386 version. > > Now is not a good time to awaken bugs in the console driver. > > Bugs in the commit: > - when the console is a serial console, no getty is started on /dev/ttyv0. > - cons25 is the wrong type for a serial console. Additional bugs: - getty does a revoke(2) - this revokes /dev/console for all background processes during startup, and syslogd(8) writing to /dev/console, among other things. - a getty on ttyv0 or ttyd0 also causes a revoke(2) once-only(?) on /dev/console. when booting in serial console mode. This is very bad too. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message