dev/console catch 22

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Michael Cashwell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:48 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Michael Cashwell wrote:
> > > I am left wondering if there isn't some way to get init to actually
> > > reexec itself without patching it. It seems that the inittab restart
> > > would do that if I could get init to exit. But given my inittab success
> > > I have back the main functionality I needed so further exploration will
> > > have to wait.
> >
> > might be something to look into, but personally i just dont think this
> > has relevance in any sort of actual deployed production system
>
> Quite so. I think it only matters when the kernel can't open the
> console.

which is really only an issue for development right ?  the proper production 
image will have /dev/console in place already ...
-mike
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