From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 24 18:55:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAF837B71B; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2P2tjj19910; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200103250211.f2P2BSA02821@mass.dis.org> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: consoles... Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin , mjacob@feral.com, obrien@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Mar-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> > Sysinstall does need to be fixed, though, to enable the correct getty. >> >> What happens on non-ZS machines if we put zs0 in ttys and put a getty on it? > > Getty exits very quickly a few times, and then init stops spawning it for > a while. Rinse, repeat. > > Getty should probably exit silently with a better status code, and init > should grok this. I proposed this before, but as usual never followed up > with real code. Stick it on projects.freebsd.org so that someone else can code it then. :) (Or send a PR or something. :)). -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message