On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:40:04PM +0100, Ian D. Leroux wrote: > If /dev/console can just go missing however (does that happen?)
No, it *should* never happen unintendedly (besides catastrophic file system corruption, mount failures for other similar reasons, ...). The init reaction is an emergency recovery feature. It happens regularily on install media, but I guess we can ignore most of the rc.d scripts in that environment (as they are not present). I am not objecting to your implementation, and as you say the choice of defaults is not a clear one and could be argued either way. Your point of a simpler implementation is a very valid one. Martin
