Am 16.07.2013 20:12, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Al Viro wrote: >> As for the devices, they are *not* bogus. RTFM, already. >> Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt, if you can't be bothered >> to say git grep UML Documentation/ and find where it on your own. The >> relevant section is called "Setting up serial lines and consoles". >> Seriously, it's not as if the documentation didn't exist or had been >> hard to find... > > Yes; I've been trying to decipher the con thing for some time now. > >> FWIW, default config is rather annoying - 6 xterms spawned and associated >> with /dev/tty[1-6]. con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pts mentioned in the HOWTO would, >> IMO, make for much saner default. > > Leave aside the fact that I could not find the uml-utils upstream [1],
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/downloads.html > and didn't have a /uml/port-helper to connect the xterms for a second; > I didn't even understand what was supposed to happen. Why do we spawn > xterms, and attach to the host's /dev/tty*? So far, I just used > /dev/console inside my existing tmux session in urxvt, and it seems to > work fine. > >> No comments on systemd behaviour - take that with LP and his crowd. They >> may or may not be confused by /dev/tty1 not being a virtual console. > > From my brief discussion with Lennart, he's just following what > Documentation/devices.txt says: /dev/tty* are virtual consoles. If um > is making some sort of exception for good reason, I'm sure systemd can > accommodate it. /me wonders since when /dev/ttyS0 is a virtual console... Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
