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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar-YTcQvvOqK21BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>,
	Linux Containers
	<containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: tty consideration
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:15:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49887B99.3010101@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B980989EA-cHQ43lMKbBKenyD9vqZGNUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>

Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Another tty problem arises from the implementation of sysv-init/upstart.
> Let me explain:
>
> sysv-init uses /dev/console (or ENV[CONSOLE]), and randomly close/reopen
> that device.
>
> upstart also uses /dev/console, and also randomly close/reopen that
> device.
>
> So far no problem, until udevd is started. udevd rewrites /dev with
> reasonable defaults.
>
> This has the side effect that your tty handling does no longer work.
>
> Ok, you will argue now that it does not make sense to start udev inside
> a container. While this is true, it is incredible difficult to avoid
> udev startup, because newer distributions have many dependencies on that
> package.
>   
Good catch !

           reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03 17:15 UTC|newest]

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