From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 27 8:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A6F37B403 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 08:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9RFRCS15688; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:27:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:02:54 EDT." <200110271502.f9RF2s386208@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:27:12 +0200 Message-ID: <15686.1004196432@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200110271502.f9RF2s386208@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman w rites: >< said: > >> Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init >> die and have the kernel print the message. /sbin/init cannot >> print the message when there is no "/dev/console" can it ? > >Yes, it can, if the kernel does the right then when hand-crafting the >`init' process to ensure that the console is already open rather than >making `init' do it. Not a bad idea, but currently not implemented. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message