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authorAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>2012-02-04 21:55:01 +0100
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2012-02-04 21:55:01 +0100
commit6e9d047c1558f92531ea12b9e3206023ab77cf51 (patch)
tree5c1c7b2d8b20fc64d18208075282b771287678ba /shell/cttyhack.c
parentef43beac63aa7e4b2bccb069e47b5e4902bb895f (diff)
downloadbusybox-6e9d047c1558f92531ea12b9e3206023ab77cf51.tar.gz
cttyhack: handle multiple consoles found in sysfs
If multiple consoles are found from the sysfs file, cttyhack fails: cttyhack: can't open '/dev/tty0 ttyS0': No such file or directory In such cases take the last one as the kernel will use that one for /dev/console. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'shell/cttyhack.c')
-rw-r--r--shell/cttyhack.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/shell/cttyhack.c b/shell/cttyhack.c
index 6ff867413..f9b59c263 100644
--- a/shell/cttyhack.c
+++ b/shell/cttyhack.c
@@ -123,15 +123,22 @@ int cttyhack_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
* TIOCGSERIAL check, which assumes that all
* serial lines follow /dev/ttySn convention -
* which is not always the case.
- * Therefore, we use this methos first:
+ * Therefore, we use this method first:
*/
int s = open_read_close("/sys/class/tty/console/active",
console + 5, sizeof(console) - 5);
if (s > 0) {
- /* found active console via sysfs (Linux 2.6.38+)
- * sysfs string looks like "ttyS0\n" so zap the newline:
+ char *last;
+ /* Found active console via sysfs (Linux 2.6.38+).
+ * It looks like "[tty0 ]ttyS0\n" so zap the newline:
*/
console[4 + s] = '\0';
+ /* If there are multiple consoles,
+ * take the last one:
+ */
+ last = strrchr(console + 5, ' ');
+ if (last)
+ overlapping_strcpy(console + 5, last + 1);
break;
}