Re: Booting into /bin/bash

From: Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 19:22:52 EST

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In article <8pjlk6$vnf$1@enterprise.cistron.net> you wrote:

>>However, ^C does not stop anything. No signal gets sent to anybody.
>>I don't want to make it too large because it won't fit on a floppy
>>if I do.
>
> That means you don't have a controlling tty.

But why is /dev/console not a tty? Is there any good reason,
or is just "because nobody has done it"?

Ion

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