Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting the number of virtual consoles in user mode linux

[Anupam Kapoor <anupamk@speakeasy.net>]

Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:22:38PM -0700, Anupam Kapoor wrote:
> [...]
>> i am not sure i understand how it is related to spawning multiple
>> consoles during system boot.
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe that the following commands will create the vc's
> (which is not what you want):
>
>                    echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/vc/${x}
> or
>                    echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/tty${x}
> in /etc/init.d/consolefont (in case you don't have consolechars)
>
> By delimiting ${x} to the number of VC's you want you make sure that the
> kernel only starts that number of xterms when loading the UML...
i think the consoles are created by devfsd, with :
MAKEDEV /dev/vc/XXX c 4 ....
or some such.

i think 'echo' does not create any devices.

kind regards
anupam

>
> Wkr,
> 	Sven Vermeulen
>
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