Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:27:12 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs question Message-ID: <15686.1004196432@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:02:54 EDT." <200110271502.f9RF2s386208@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <200110271502.f9RF2s386208@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman w rites: ><<On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:32:07 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said: > >> Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init >> die and have the kernel print the message. /sbin/init cannot >> print the message when there is no "/dev/console" can it ? > >Yes, it can, if the kernel does the right then when hand-crafting the >`init' process to ensure that the console is already open rather than >making `init' do it. Not a bad idea, but currently not implemented. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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