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Re: more xlogin stderr fun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Thu Jul 16 18:14:35 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 18:14:28 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> I'm also very curious why dm redirects console output to a pipe
> instead of just pointing it at consolefd (ttyp0).
I'm pretty foggy on how that all works anymore and I don't know if
this still applies. But at the time I think it had to do with what
happens to /dev/console output while the console window is being
restarted. Doing the pipe thing was to ensure that all the data would
eventually show up somewhere.
Craig
