Re: revocation of /dev/console at the end of rc sequence

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 26/03/2025 10:52 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> > It's a control daemon for the video subsystem, which is unrelated to the
> system
> > console except maybe it will be used as the system console. But
> console-kit-daemon
> > doesn't care, if I understand, about the system console: it just wants
> to
> > control which
> > of the virtual terminals are current then? Is that a more precise way of
> saying
> > what it
> > does avoiding overloaded terms?
>
> Yes.  In their own words, ConsoleKit2 is a framework for defining and
> tracking
> users, login sessions, and seats.
> In practice, at least on FreeBSD, that translates mostly to tracking
> active VTs
> (of the video console) plus logins via ConsoleKit2-aware programs such as
> various Display Managers.
>
> And I agree that "console" is a very overloaded term.
> E.g., comments in sys/sys/consio.h talk about "console" although it's
> pretty
> clear that the ioctl-s are for the video console.
>

Yea, after all that I think /dev/ttyv0 is likely the least bad choice we
have in the
absence of a better management device.

Warner