From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:09:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add workaround for problems with the missing /dev/console
X-Git-Tag: whiterussian_0.9~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9930567eea9368981417a4a4c6cb9be608f7de00;p=openwrt%2Fsvn-archive%2Fopenwrt.git

add workaround for problems with the missing /dev/console

SVN-Revision: 6255
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diff --git a/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/preinit b/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/preinit
index 3f94442c67..4e21d6605b 100755
--- a/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/preinit
+++ b/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/preinit
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 . /etc/functions.sh
 export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 
+# the shell really doesn't like having stdin/out closed
+# that's why we use /dev/pty/m0 and m1 as replacement
+# for /dev/console if there's no serial console available
+dd if=/dev/console of=/dev/null bs=1 count=0 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || \
+	exec </dev/pty/m0 >/dev/pty/m1 2>&0
+
 failsafe() {
 	lock /tmp/.failsafe