Re: Setting TERM in single user mode

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:49:25PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
>       The device that tty reports and tset uses is /dev/constty, which
>       is the 'correct' value for the console device.

/dev/constty was added (by myself) so that sysinst could write to the
console device while intercepting data written by the kernel (and daemons)
to /dev/console without intercepting its own output.
This is needed to stop kernel messages affecting the curses output.

There is precident for running the login session on a different named
device - it was /dev/constty, but I'm not sure of the reason.

At alternative might have been to not intercept output to a processes
controlling terminal.

In non single user mode (or maybe just not in the mode that init runs
sysinst) the getty gets run on /dev/console - I wasn't allowed to change
the relevant file (IIRC the change got reverted).

        David

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