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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:03:39 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@...elczyk.it> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: consolechars switches tty since 8b92e87 vt: add an event interface > [ In Debian before the end of the S runlevel (boot) console-screen.sh > is executed (it is not the last script though), where consolechars is > used for loading console screen font for each tty. In my case it > evaluates to: > > /usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/ttyX -f lat0-sun16 > > Similarly consolechars is used in setupcon script invoked by > console-setup (processed after console-screen.sh) to set a font chosen > by user. ] > > The problem is that since 8b92e87 running consolechars switches tty to > the one provided with --tty option. Last commit I have tested, > a9366e6, is still affected. That is a suprise as the code shouldn't be changing the behaviour of any application unless something happened to rely on the race it fixed. Even then I wouldn't expect what you see. What does an strace of that command look like so I can see what ioctls it issues and in what order. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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