Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks for testing that. I've checked in the fix. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread David Walter
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be in a different spot. Please let me know if this works instead > of your patch: That works. > --- main.c.~1.32.~ Tue Nov 19 22:03:35 2002 > +++ main.cWed Nov 20 15:24:21 2002 > @@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ parse_opt (int opt, char *arg, s

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread Roland McGrath
> Roland's earlier change hasn't made it to the server for some reason, I don't know what this means. > 2002-11-20 David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * hurdio.c (hurdio_init): added hurdio_assert_dtr () call to force > the open of a device during a change of arg/type. It should

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread David Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Following up on the hangup when using fsysopts /dev/console, the following change fixes the problem. This immediately opens the new argument the term translator is pointed to (eg. /dev/vcs/10/console or your preference) Roland's earlier change hasn'

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread David Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (btw, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not one of my addresses) Apologies, don't know what that was from %-| > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:23:37AM -0500, David Walter wrote: >> I've been noticing that if the initial

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
(btw, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not one of my addresses) On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:23:37AM -0500, David Walter wrote: > I've been noticing that if the initial term process running on console > isn't killed console output doesn't change to the new device. > > If process 7 is killed (/hurd/term /dev/co

Re: /dev/console switching: the continuing saga

2002-11-20 Thread David Walter
It turns out that there is another issue (at least one). I've been wondering about this in a different context, and hopefully the following makes sense. In hurd/init/init.c the hardware device is opened. || device_open (device_master, D_WRITE, "console", &consdev)) But when multiuser mode