From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 19:56:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED341065673; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:613:100::211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF078FC12; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D09471CCB2; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:56:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:56:32 +0100 From: Ed Schouten To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20081031195632.GR1165@hoeg.nl> References: <200810311746.23743.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> <20081031190614.GQ1165@hoeg.nl> <490B5C42.10200@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bAwSoJxbKYwy34Oe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490B5C42.10200@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Thierry Herbelot , hackers@freebsd.org, current ML Subject: Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:56:35 -0000 --bAwSoJxbKYwy34Oe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Scott Long wrote: > The multiplexed console feature is one thing that linux got right. In a > corporate setting, you really need both a serial console and a video > console in order to effectively manage the machines, as you want to be > able to access them both remotely and locally. While it might be hard > to build multiplexing into the console driver, do you think it would be > possible to layer a multiplexer on top of it, similar to how the kbdmux > driver works? I'm not sure at which level we should implement this. I mainly wrote the new /dev/console implementation, because it is a lot more simple than the existing one and removes ugly hacks from the TTY code (like recursive locking, etc). Maybe if I can find some more time I'll look into it more closely, but my todo list is very long right now. ;-) --=20 Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ --bAwSoJxbKYwy34Oe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkLYvAACgkQ52SDGA2eCwWvvACZAfYAV/IvOOGWyY6j+9vcm0vB CiwAn1rLoPAAIUKQi5/pKTZZQwYY2S/4 =BFJv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bAwSoJxbKYwy34Oe--