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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:24:10 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup 
Message-ID:  <199907231624.KAA07741@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907230402.NAA02136@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
References:  <199907221817.LAA09698@usr05.primenet.com> <199907230402.NAA02136@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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> 
> I guess it may not.  After init forks and execs getty and xdm, we
> don't know the exact order in which these processes will be scheduled
> to run on which CPU, do we?  /etc/ttys does not ensure the order of
> execution.
> 
> If xdm happens to run before other getty processes, it may grab a vty
> which will be eventually opened by a getty later.

Actually, I had forgotten about this.  This is true because the line in
/etc/ttys doesn't specify *which* tty for X to use.  If we could easily
force X to use that specific tty, it would avoid this problem.


Nate


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