Why are those ioctls forcibly applied to foreground console only? This makes
--tty option for consolechars non-functional and prevents console
initialization (for non-ASCII charsets) as part of system startup (or as part
of getty) because it works only when called on currently active console.
I'm running with the following patch without any ill effects nor can I see any
harm looking in code.
Any reason it cannot be applied?
regards
-andrey
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:33:12PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Why are those ioctls forcibly applied to foreground console only?
Funny that you ask precisely now.
Current source has this patch already.
It very slightly changes the documented interface of these ioctls.
I made kbd-1.09 yesterday evening. Expect to put it the usual places
later tonight.
Andries