They do. The problem was /dev/tty1 did not exists to allow /linuxrc
to execute. The solution, though ugly, was to keep a special file on the root,
and have do_linuxrc look for this instead of something in dev.
> However, there is a better solution to this: replace the call to
> open(2) in init/main.c with code that allocates a file and calls
> chrdev_open() directly. That way, even if /dev/console doesn't exist
> on a non-devfs system, there are no problems.
I wanted to do something like that at the time. Couldn't get it working
right.
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