Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:18:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <199603120818.JAA03752@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603120407.PAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 12, 96 03:07:50 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Hmm, there was a saying the running getty on /dev/console used to be > >totally broken. Bruce? Ever tried it lately? > > Not lately. I use syscons, which still has the hack of using a special > minor device for the console so that /dev/console is a little different > from /dev/vt0. I think there is nothing special for pcvt, so /dev/vt0 > is the console. ...and i've been one of the guys who never had problems in running a getty on /dev/console. Though you've once convinced me that it was broken for pcvt, too (i only didn't really notice). I've never looked again into this. I know of some commercial (non-PC) systems that have a getty running on /dev/console. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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