Re: Changes to sbin/init/init.c (r233944) makes x11/xdm impossible to start from /etc/ttys

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:09:46 +0200
Am 04/11/12 07:08, schrieb Konstantin Belousov:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:36:45PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
>> Hi Oliver,
>>
>> * O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, 20120410 11:37:
>>> Reverting init.c back to its previous state seems to make the error go away.
>>
>> Sorry about that. I added the O_NONBLOCK to prevent init(8) from
>> possibly getting stuck if the TTY used by /dev/console were to misbehave
>> by not setting CLOCAL.
>>
>> It seems we can't do this reliably at all, so I guess I'd better just
>> revert the code like so:
>>
>> 	http://80386.nl/pub/init.txt
>>
>> I'll commit the patch to SVN after I have discussed it wtih kib_at_. Thanks
>> for reporting!
> 
> Ok, lets discuss. I do not understand why this patch makes any change at all.
> Esp. for xdm that is supposedly run on some vty and not on console.


Hope the discussion is going on and will make the problem go away. It is
still present and bothering ...

Regards,
Oliver


Received on Fri Apr 13 2012 - 15:09:54 UTC

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