In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : On 26-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote: : > : > Mark Murray writes: : > > Hi : > > : > > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD : > > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12). : > > : > > Any objections to my committing this? : > : > I object. : > : > Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial : > console. With devfs this means that /dev/ttyv[1-N] do not exist and : > getty bitches like this: : > : > Sep 26 11:00:11 monet getty[543]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory : > : > Its an incredible pain in the ass to get spammed by these things on a : > 9600 baud serial console while you're editing ttys to turn the damned : > things off. I don't want to have to have 4 more lines of spam to : > deal with when installing a new server. : > : > If you also fix getty to silently ignore the problem and go to sleep : > forever, then I withdraw my objection. : : Index: init.c : =================================================================== : RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sbin/init/init.c,v : retrieving revision 1.51 : diff -u -r1.51 init.c : --- init.c 3 Aug 2002 16:21:33 -0000 1.51 : +++ init.c 26 Sep 2002 15:56:57 -0000 : @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ : * then don't add the device to the session list. : */ : if ((fd = open(sp->se_device, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK, 0)) < 0) { : - if (errno == ENXIO) { : + if (errno == ENXIO || errno == ENOENT) { : free_session(sp); : return (0); : } : : (Maybe we should detect devfs somewhere else and use : || devfs_present && errno == ENOENT) instead.)
Why? If someone hasn't done a MAKEDEV of the device, it is just as dead. MAKEDEV + kill -1 1 will bring it back if they didn't (untested, but it is the normal way to do these things). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message