[BusyBox] Init and respawn messed up console

[Paul Fox]

 > As far as I can tell from the source, any command for which
 > the console is blank will go on the default console, which may
 > be the serial console.  This includes background processes
 > that don't really expect to do any input or output:  the
 > default console will be re-initialized for them anyway.
 > 
 > I suspect that if the console is blank, it should go on
 > /dev/null.  ....

i don't agree.  i'd rather see unexpected output and decide what
to do about it, than have it never appear at all.

 > on this as soon as i get time to resume my rework of init.  In the mean time, 
 > just put "null" before the first colon of every inittab entry you don't want 
 > to pollute the default console.

this sounds like the correct long-term behavior to me -- if you
know you don't want the output, be explicit about sending it to
/dev/null.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com