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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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