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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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