Re: getty repeating too quickly on port `/dev/console', sleeping

David Laight <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:43:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:10:28PM -0400, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> 
> I see a constty in the /dev directory, but is it documented anywhere (I
> had not heard of it until now)? What can it be used for besides
> this/what is it intended for?

I added /dev/constty in order to get sysinst to be a able to capture system
messages and then write them to the console (without generating a loop).
I had intended to change the getty, but was told it couldn't be changed....
But it is used by init for the terminal when it spawns the install shell.

	David

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