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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:21:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Cc:        jedgar@fxp.org, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup
Message-ID:  <199907232321.QAA14822@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907230445.NAA03665@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from "Kazutaka YOKOTA" at Jul 23, 99 01:45:22 pm

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> "VT number 8" means /dev/ttyv7.
> 
> This means that if xdm if run before any getty when the system is
> staring up, it may grab a vty which will be subsequently used by a
> getty process.

1)	Did it lock up your console when this happened?

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
	for this would be that you get a "respawning too rapidly"
	message, but the system would not lock.

3)	Why does it only happen in SMP?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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