Josselin Mouette wrote: > We remove entirely the getty respawning from /etc/inittab. Instead, a > new daemon is started by a regular init script. This daemon does the > following: > * Opens all /dev/tty1 to tty6 and display a d-i-like “press enter > to activate this console” in them. > * Provide a very simple interface to reserve a VT, that can be > queried by the display manager. > * Whenever you press enter on a VT, reserve it and start a getty > process. > * When almost all ttys are allocated, start opening tty7+ and so > on. > * If no display manager is started, always run a getty process in > tty1.
How would gettys on serial (and equivalent) ports be handled in this proposal? Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
