From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 15 18:24:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA24112 for current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA24107; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA27554; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:54:33 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610160124.KAA27554@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: non-console mode.. To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:54:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <32641484.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 15, 96 03:47:32 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > > > There's no need for either work or violent objections - the 'no console' > > case is already supported. Look at i386/i386/cons.c. > > I'm very familiar with that.. > > In actual fact if you had no console, the system would crash. > I committed a patch to fix that. > but that is not what I want.. > What I want to add (I have working code) is the ability to > have a console-able device exist, but have that device > enabled/disabled from acting as a console So use the null console entry, and then the 'xconsole' technique for grabbing it to an fd. (TIOCCONS). -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[