about /dev/console

蔡栋 caidong at kedacom.com
Thu Nov 10 04:10:27 UTC 2005


busybox,您好!

	I don't know why BB detect console by console_init in main.c,the kernel has been open console by "(sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0)" in main.c

Could you tell me the purpose of /dev/console in linux ? Did /dev/console only used in init.c for logging some message?

        致
礼!
 				

        蔡栋
        caidong at kedacom.com
          2005-11-10


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