[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vconsole-setup: setup negative conditional on uml

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Sat Jul 20 09:22:19 PDT 2013


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> It's not about failing it, that would be ugly, sure. Vconsole can just
>> give up and return 0 if it finds a tt0 that actually isn't a tty0.
>
> Hm, how can I tell if vconsole-setup actually did something or not
> then?  Doesn't it matter for curses apps, which require VT102
> emulation to interpret escape sequences correctly?

Oh, I meant turning is_vconsole() into returning success when it is
called for a tty0 that in fact doesn't work like tty0. :)

That would make all the weird (I expect there are more things like
that) tty0 setups just skip the service without additional explicit
conditions in the unit file.

Kay


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