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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.

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