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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:14:31 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, jedgar@fxp.org
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup
Message-ID:  <199907240014.RAA16548@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907232359.JAA29461@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 24, 99 09:59:58 am

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> >2)	Why doesn't getty use O_EXCL on the open, such that if
> >	it can't get an exclusive lock, it fails?  Worst case
> 
> Perhaps because O_EXCL has no effect for devices under BSD (its effect
> is implementation-defined except for regular files).

Hmmm... would you commit patches?  This seems to be a bug, to me.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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