linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] early init: open /dev/console with O

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Message-ID: <20200102041056.GA535736@rani.riverdale.lan>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jan 2020 23:10:57 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     youling 257 <youling257@...il.com>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] early init: open /dev/console with O_LARGEFILE

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:00:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 7:09 PM youling 257 <youling257@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > test this patch.diff, no the system/bin/sh warning, fixed.
> 
> Good to finally have figured out the silly reason this broke.
> 
> I may end up deciding just to revert after all, but even if I do that,
> I'll just feel a lot better about knowing _why_ things broke.
> 
> Thanks a lot for all the testing you did,
> 
>                    Linus

Huh. Feels good to have helped finding the bug, even though I thought it
couldn't *possibly* be the source of the problem.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."