terminal fuckage

Nicolas Souchu nsouch@free.fr
Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:13:28 +0200


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:54:58AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 03:45:43AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > I'm currently going through the 2734 instances of ENXIO in the kernel of
> > FreeBSD, to find out which of them is the faulty one. I expect to find it
> > in a few days using a simple build&try algorithm =)
> 
> No luck. Messing with internal return values brings kfreebsd to panic on
> boot (and I can't do any terminal testing like that :P).
> 
> Hints welcome..

Maybe the libc is trying to open the device instead of cloning it.
ctty seems to be a only-clonable device.

Since ttyv0 is already opened by the getty/login, this may be the
reason why FreeBSD expects cloning...

Nicholas

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