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troglobit / finit

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@console not functional with multiple active consoles #103

Closed wkz closed 6 years ago

wkz commented 6 years ago

Specifying tty @console is supposed to bring up a getty on the active console. But when multiple consoles are active, no getty will be available on any of them.

This is because /sys/class/tty/console/active is assumed to only contain a single tty. When multiple consoles are active this files shows them all in a space separated list, e.g. tty0 ttyAMA0.

Fixing the parse error is easy. The hard question is: how to we handle this functionally? Do we spawn a getty for each console listed? Only the first?

troglobit commented 6 years ago

I think we need to start a getty on each one. That's the only thing that makes sense. The @console is special anyway, so having another exception for it should be OK.