confusing behavior with no inittab and non-tty stdin

[Laurent Bercot]

On 05/11/2015 06:33, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> I'm experiencing some confusing behavior with busybox when running it
> in an LXC container. In particular, this means that stdin, stdout, and
> stderr are all /dev/null when busybox is exec()'d as init.

  The relevant function is console_init() in init/init.c in the
busybox source.

  Try setting the CONSOLE environment variable to "/dev/console", or
whatever device your console is (seen from inside the container),
before executing busybox init. init will only reopen its standard
descriptors when it doesn't find such a variable.

-- 
  Laurent