Subject: Re: Conflict with xconsole and textmode /dev/console
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/30/2002 18:37:56
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:53:06AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:32:48PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > xconsole shouldn't cause this behavior.  There is a bug somewhere, which needs
> > to be fixed.
> 
> err, but xconsole is _designed_ to redirect the output to /dev/console!
> 
> (actually, the underlying system call is.)

Yes, but it shouldn't prevent getty on the console from working.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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