On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:19:15PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> FWIW, here's a patch.

Cool!

> It actually took a lot more that 10 minutes, because
> if the kernel part is indeed trivial, when init starts it needs some kind
> of tty emulation (TIOCSCTTY for libutil's login_tty), and just returning 0
> for that ioctl is not enough (setting s_ttyp to non NULL prevent a
> segfault later when the very first process that init creates exits).

Ouch. Depending on aplication you could consider running the whole application
as init-replacement and just avoiding touching the console - but your solution
of course looks better.

Martin