On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 01:40:56PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: >On 12.04.19 09:30, Adamski, Krzysztof (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) wrote: > >> Well, that depends. If the program doing those writes expects /dev/console >> to be a tty device, then it cannot be any file. > >According to Vincent's mail, the actual problem is just systemd. >Changing the kernel just for making one specific userland program >(which happens to be written by somebody, who even doesn't know the >semantics of rm -R) happy, sounds pretty strange for me. > >I'm not opposed to the general idea of having a dummy tty driver, >but please for some actually sane usecases, not just working around >broken userland :p
I don't want to start a flame but if that userspace would be written by somebody else, would that change anything? :) Anyways, historically we did not have many convinence usitlities in the kernel and now we do. So does the fact that "this might be convinient but is not strictly necessary" a blocker to get something into the kernel? Krzysztof
