getty takes lot of time to throw Login promt

[Santosh Kumar]

On 20 December 2011 23:53, Dan Fandrich <dan at coneharvesters.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:41:36PM +0530, Santosh Kumar wrote:
>>           I am using buxybox 1.19.2. getty process takes about
>> 1Min45secs (105secs) to throw Login prompt. Could you please suggest
>> anychanges that can reduce this delay.
>> in the inittab file i am using
>> ::respwan:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
>
> Perhaps /dev/ttyS0 doesn't exist when getty is first spawned so it exits
> immediately. init then respawns it in rapid succession a few times before
> blacklisting it for a couple of minutes.  Meanwhile, /dev/ttyS0 is created
> so when init tries spawning getty again later, all is well.
>
>>>> Dan

the source of the delay is the code "usleep(100 * 1000)"  which is
supposed to generate .1 sec delay is generating 100sec delay. So
something is wrong with the timer.

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santosh