Subject: Re: behavior of syslogd/shutdown/reboot with locked console
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/18/2006 09:43:40
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:58:57PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:39:55PM +0400, Denis Lagno wrote:
> > I do not know is it actually a bug.  It was discovered by my cat:)
> 
> At work the cleaning woman discovered the same ;-)
> 
> > Is this behaviour fine?
> 
> Yes, it is. Either remove the keyboard, or (easier) use "wsconsctl -w map" to
> assign something harmless to the scroll lock key.

It does not seem fine for syslogd to block if some of the output channels
are blocked. Maybe it should use noblocking writes or something like that?

Pavel