Subject: Re: revoke(2), /dev/console and /dev/ttyE0
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/14/2003 12:33:30
> DL> So on an i386 system where the console tty is /dev/ttyE0 if anything
> DL> opens /dev/ttyE0 (and nothing will stop it) then it will stop getty
> DL> on /dev/console from working properly.
>
> Not to be dense here, but I would hope that one isn't running gettys
> on ttyE0 and console simultaneously. I would expect this to "break",
> i.e. "not work", simply because input won't know which way to go.
I'm not THAT stupid :-)
David
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