ash: Can't access tty problems (initramfs)

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:00:16PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I think that there is indeed an understandable desire to start
> shell on the console and yet to have a ctty (have working ^C).
> Main reason is that this will automatically start shell on
> serial line or Linux vt - whichever is configured as console
> for the kernel. Otherwise, it's sort of not trivial where
> the console is.

[...]
>           This device is special - it cannot be a controlling tty.

Why is that?

What changed from busybox 1.4.2 to make this an issue?

I've previously used simpleinit + bash and it wasn't an issue either.

Hamish
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