Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: tty_io, fix closecount counting

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Tue Jun 03 2008 - 16:49:20 EST


On 05/31/2008 03:43 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
It is ever vcs1, which is /dev/console and it is the only treated separately (otherwise I think we would have more (and distinct) reports like this). When the console is HUPped? And what should happen with openers? The 2.6.22+suse happened when sulogin /dev/console was invoked. Any ideas how to track this down?

Its a complete and total mess is the obvious answer. In fact its far
worse than it first looks and I don't believe it can be fixed without
reworking the whole printk/console stuff.

Thanks a heap for the answer.
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