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Re: sun4 [8.2.1]: xlogin/reactivate

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 16 12:00:55 1998

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:00:38 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
        testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3607] in testers"

> Well, I wasn't actually seeing this behavior, but while xlogin was
> running, I remotely logged in as root.  When I echoed foo >>
> /dev/console, nothing appeared in the console window, however the
> echo did not hang.

This does not match what happens on my machine, and suggests that dm
failed to grab the console, or some related failure.  I guess I'll add
some debugging code for TIOCCONS failing.

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