CTRL-C - Make the hurting stop

[Lombard, David N]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:06:51PM -0600, Jason Farque wrote:
> David,
> 
> Yes, I'm running a serial console at 38400 baud on ttyS0.

I meant system console, as in "console=ttyS0,38400n8" on the kernel command
line...

>                                                            What I expect
> to work but does not is:
> 
> ::respawn:/usr/bin/cttyhack /usr/ash
> 
> The message " cttyhack: switching to '/dev/ttyS0'" comes right at the
> tail end of the boot process, after /etc/init.d/rcS has executed.  I
> need to be able to ctrl-c out of my rcS and/or the program(s) that it
> executes.  Perhaps the system is working as intended but my linux boot
> sequence knowledge is too weak.  What I'm trying to do is:

Hmmm.  cttyhack doesn't do:

	setsid()
	ioctl(0,TIOCSCTTY,1)

kboot <http://kboot.sourceforge.net> has a utils/getctty.c that may be
the very thing you want.

-- 
David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.