Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty*

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 12:26:53 EST


Richard Weinberger wrote:
> UML does not have virtual consoles.

Then why do I see this on my UML box?

# ls /dev/tty* | wc -l
113

Why is it creating unusable devices? Is drivers/tty.c responsible for
this? What is it exactly?

> I'm not running HEAD, but opensuse 12.3 (with systemd) works on UML.

Also, what's with all the

xterm_open : run_helper failed, errno = 2

messages? (I installed xterm, but it wasn't very enlightening)
How is drivers/xterm.c supposed to work? And what is mconsole?
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