[BusyBox] TAKE 2: Message on Startup: "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Stewart,

> [snipped patch that added ioctl(0, TIOCSCTTY, 0); to init.c]
> 
> That doesn't work for me with my serial console: I get back -1/EPERM.
> 
> Implicitly, the device_open call just after the setsid() would normally make
> the opened device the controlling terminal - which looks to have happened
> based on getting EPERM back.  Did you mean to pass 1 as the final parameter
> to ioctl?  Putting it in with 1 as the third parameter instead makes the
> message go away.  Which is odd, because that implies that there is already a

Hmm. Interesting.
Have you syslog?
If have, what giving messages:
"Starting pid %d, console %s: '%s'\n", getpid(), a->terminal, cmdpath);

                  /dev/console or /dev/ttySN?


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