From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Tomko <tomko@avantwave.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question why need open /dev/console in init() when starting kernel
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:15:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050603141504.GA14641@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506030629170.11487@chaos.analogic.com>
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> For error messages (as well as it's the law)! Init needs a terminal.
> Init is the 'father' of all future tasks and they need a default terminal
> too.
Is it at all possible that if /dev/console does not exist that the kernel
can mknod it?
Would the code to do this be larger than 2 entries in a cpio archive (one
for /dev directory and one for /dev/console char dev)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-03 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-03 7:01 question why need open /dev/console in init() when starting kernel Tomko
2005-06-03 10:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-03 14:15 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2005-06-03 14:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-03 15:08 ` Wakko Warner
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[not found] ` <20050603152017.GC14641@animx.eu.org>
2005-06-03 16:41 ` J. Scott Kasten
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2005-06-03 10:06 ` Bodo Eggert
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