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Re: Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64



On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Ben!
> 
> On 4/7/19 1:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles 
> > > ttyHV0               -W- (EC p  )    4:64
> > > tty0                 -WU (E     )    4:1
> > > root@landau:~# readlink /sys/dev/char/4:64
> > > ../../devices/root/f0299a70/f029b788/tty/ttyS0
> > 
> > The inconsistent name seems like a kernel bug...
> 
> Yes. I'm trying to convince Dave Miller to fix this.
> 
> Do you think we could carry a patch in src:linux for the time being?
[...]

I would rather not do that until it's accepted, as if it that doesn't
happen we either have to switch back or carry it forever.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered
an expert.


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