From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Jul 23 17:16:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A8615712 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11668; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:14:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd011650; Fri Jul 23 17:14:32 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16548; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:14:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199907240014.RAA16548@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:14:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, jedgar@fxp.org In-Reply-To: <199907232359.JAA29461@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 24, 99 09:59:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message