[Mike Frysinger] > From: Gil Kloepfer <g...@kloepfer.org> > > A race condition in sysvinit exists where the utmp entry that getty needs > to update may not be written by sysvinit by the time getty accesses it. > This happens more often (and almost exclusively) on uniprocessor systems > due to the way time-slicing is done by the kernel.
What happen when getty fail to start? If I read the code correctly, a bogus utmp entry will be written then. Where did I misunderstand? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
