> On Mar 22, 2017, at 12:00, Warner Losh <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: imp > Date: Wed Mar 22 19:00:41 2017 > New Revision: 315733 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/315733 > > Log: > Impelemnt ttys onifexists in init. > > Implement a new init(8) option in /etc/ttys. If this option is present > on the entry in /etc/ttys, the entry will be active if and only if it > exists. If the name starts with a '/', it will be considered an > absolute path. If not, it will be a path relative to /dev. > > This allows one to turn off video console getty that aren't present > (while running a getty on them even when they aren't the system > console). Likewise with serial ports. > > It differs from onifconsole in only requiring the device exist rather > than it be listed as one of the system consoles. > > Sponsored by: Netflix > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10037 > > Modified: > head/include/ttyent.h > head/lib/libc/gen/getttyent.c > head/libexec/getty/ttys.5
Slick! That’s a lot better than my other proposed change for /dev/ttyv0 (which isn’t present on one of our platforms because it doesn’t have a VGA console). Thanks! -Ngie
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