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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:54:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006205417.GA25437@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097090333.29706.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:18:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-10-06 at 18:41, Greg KH wrote:
> > Good point.  So, should we do it in the kernel, in call_usermodehelper,
> > so that all users of this function get it correct, or should I do it in
> > userspace, in the /sbin/hotplug program?
> > 
> > Any opinions?
> 
> Userspace is more flexible. What does the kernel do if it can't figure
> out what to open as fd 0, 1, 2. Either it explodes or asks user space.
> While /sbin/hotplug can mknod itself a private /dev/null and
> /dev/console in an emergency.

Ok, then anyone with some serious bash-foo care to send me a patch for
the existing /sbin/hotplug file that causes it to handle this properly?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 18:52 [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 20:27 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 21:06   ` Greg KH
2004-10-05 21:13     ` Russell King
2004-10-06 15:00       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 17:41         ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:01           ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:18             ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:20               ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:26             ` Chris Wright
2004-10-06 18:16           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 19:18           ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 20:54             ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-06 20:29               ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 21:45                 ` Russell King
2004-10-07  5:51                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-08  2:15                   ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-06 20:01           ` Russell King
2004-10-05 22:36   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06  6:43     ` Russell King
2004-10-07 14:41   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-05 21:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-06  4:34   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-06  8:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 12:15       ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 13:33           ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:55             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 14:12               ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 14:23                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:28                   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 15:36                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:51                       ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 12:16   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 17:38 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:04   ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:19     ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:23       ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 21:22         ` Thayne Harbaugh
2004-10-07  8:18           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-07  9:07             ` Russell King
2004-10-07  9:46               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 18:37 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-10-06 19:08   ` Jörn Engel

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