[PATCH app/xconsole] Open /dev/console with NOCTTY and O_NONBLOCK flags

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Aug 24 18:26:13 PDT 2012


On 08/23/12 09:14 PM, Arvind Umrao wrote:
> In some cases, for SPARC servers, special files like fifo need to open in nonblocking mode otherwise whole xconsole GUI freezes. Also /dev/console is often a terminal device.  So I am opening /dev/console with NOCTTY and O_NONBLOCK flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Umrao <arvind.umrao at oracle.com>

Thanks, pushed to git master:

To ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xconsole
   2e2ccc8..a7a5482  master -> master

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