On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:12:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > FreeBSD kernel doesn't tell PID 1 the pathname of /dev/console > > through CONSOLE environment variable like Linux does. > [...] > > The Linux kernel doesn't do that either (unless you put > CONSOLE=something on the kernel command line). > > It does attach /dev/console to the standard I/O streams of pid 1; is > the problem here that FreeBSD does not?
Hi Ben Thanks for the correction. Yes, FreeBSD does neither pass CONSOLE=something nor attach /dev/console in fds 0,1,2. So the patch is still needed but for a different reason. -- Jon Boden ubuntuBSD -- The power of FreeBSD kernel with familiarity of Ubuntu OS! http://www.ubuntubsd.org/ -- https://twitter.com/ubuntuBSD
