> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980817222954.25345J-100000@babylon.clifford.at>,
> Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> wrote:
>
> >No - the idea is more to make it possible for the user to see all the
> >warning messages generated by the boot scripts - so he can turn the option
> >on. There is another point for allowing /etc/console: if the kernel opens
> >/etc/console instead of /dev/console it's possible to unmount /dev from
> >the single-user-mode (if you use /etc/console as tty). If one uses
> >/dev/console, the device would be busy as long as init runs - so one could
> >never unmount /dev (e.g. to see what's in /dev/ if devfs is not mounted).
>
> Init reopens /dev/console every time it needs to write something or
> when it spawns a child. It doesn't keep /dev/console opened.
>
> Mike.
Hmmm - my init doesn't. Anyway: I will hack my init programm - forget
the patch. I still like the idea - but i can live without /etc/console
support in the kernel too ...
- clifford
PS: Linus - please apply just this patch to linux/CREDITS - thx:
--- CREDITS.old Sun Aug 16 17:49:47 1998
+++ CREDITS Tue Aug 18 07:36:49 1998
@@ -1954,6 +1954,14 @@
S: Wayville SA 5034
S: Australia
+N: Clifford Wolf
+E: god@clifford.at
+W: http://www.clifford.at/
+D: Menuconfig/lxdialog improvement
+S: Foehrengasse 16
+S: A-2333 Leopoldsdorf b. Wien
+S: Austria
+
N: Roger E. Wolff
E: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl
D: Written kmalloc/kfree
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Clifford Wolf
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