From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Problem with console Date: 21 Nov 1992 14:10:27 GMT
In article <FCAIC.92Nov19091438@woody.wbst845e.xerox.com> fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com (Frank Caico) writes:
>
>I have been trying to figure this out, but havent come up with the answer
>yet.
>
>I am trying to start up a console from inside X windows, but i cannot get
>it to work. If I start an xconsole, it doesn't actually display console
>messages and if I start a xterm -C that doesn't work either.
>
>I am using the SLS distribution, linux .98pl2 If anyone can help with this
>I would really appreciate it!
There was a bug in the pty redirection handling with the new tty
routines in 0.98. It was essentially a '+1' which should have been a
'-1'. It's fixed in 0.98pl4 and pl5.
Note that the linux kernel messages still won't get printed under X
unless you use a special program to actually trap them: xterm -C only
catches user-level output (ie error messages from the X server etc) to
the console.
Linus