On Jan 27 2007 18:38, David Miller wrote: >> >> int ret = sys_open((const char __user *)"/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0); >> if(ret < 0) >> printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: unable to open an " >> "initial console (%d)\n", ret); >> >> I wonder what return code it will give (-EFAULT is my guess). > >It's not getting -EFAULT, the init task runs with set_fs(KERNEL_DS). Ok. >It's getting -ENOENT because no console device has registered >itself, and therefore even if you have a /dev/console node in >the filesystem the open will still fail. Hm that is a little bit misleading. I'd like to see the regular -ENXIO as happens with "all" the other block/character devices in /dev that don't have anything associated (well, at least bcak in the days where /dev was static) -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
