What's this "sys" window nonsense?
Lenny Tropiano
lenny at icus.islp.ny.us
Tue Apr 18 09:40:51 AEST 1989
In article <526 at flatline.UUCP> erict at flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|>
|>(Running 3.0 on a 3b1.)
|>
|>What's this "sys" window device name, and why is it so screwy?
|>I'm using windy and the new/improved wmgr, if that makes any difference.
|>Basically, I spawn a new window/shell, but a ps reveals:
|>
|> PID TTY TIME COMMAND
|> 1111 sys 0:01 ps
|> 1109 sys 0:00 sh
|>
...
Yes, another one of those infamous bugs with the UNIX pc. It seems
that the window driver improperly shuts down (sometimes). When this happens
/dev/syscon get's unlinked from /dev/window... How, who knows? But the
thing (kludge) you can use to fix this is stick this in your /etc/rc:
ln /dev/syscon /dev/window
ln /dev/systty /dev/window
Make sure the devices look like this (particularly the major minor numbers)...
0 crw-rw-rw- 3 root sys 7, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/syscon
0 crw-rw-rw- 3 root sys 7, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/systty
0 crw-rw-rw- 3 root sys 7, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/window
-Lenny
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