[BusyBox] Questions about init.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <200407050544.57855.rob at landley.net> you wrote:
>
> 1) Why device_open()?  How could attempting to open a console file cause init 
> to hang?  (What, /dev living on NFS or something?)  Is this a problem anybody 
> ever actually encountered?

Serial console with hardware handshake waiting for modem signals?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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