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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty*
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:34:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E57620.3000907@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kibE4ZcwEPOGU2Rmt1ZfODqQ0SoN2RmhEp-BiftsF0Uw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 16.07.2013 18:26, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> UML does not have virtual consoles.
> 
> Then why do I see this on my UML box?
> 
> # ls /dev/tty* | wc -l
> 113
> 
> Why is it creating unusable devices?  Is drivers/tty.c responsible for
> this?  What is it exactly?

This is not UML specific.
Are you using devtmpfs?

>> I'm not running HEAD, but opensuse 12.3 (with systemd) works on UML.
> 
> Also, what's with all the
> 
>    xterm_open : run_helper failed, errno = 2

2 is ENOENT.
Do you have uml-utils installed?

> messages?  (I installed xterm, but it wasn't very enlightening)
> How is drivers/xterm.c supposed to work?  And what is mconsole?

the xterm drivers opens a xterm on the host side using port-helper.
Mconsole is the management console.
Please read the documentation.

Thanks,
//richard


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 15:54 [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty* Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 15:59 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-16 16:03   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:10     ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-16 16:26       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:34         ` Richard Weinberger [this message]

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