setting standard fds to console in translator libs

[Moritz Schulte]

Hi,

i thought about adding a function similar to
libdiskfs/console.c::diskfs_console_stdio() to libnetfs and
libtrivfs. Then, these libs would be a bit more consistent: messages
(and e.g. assertion failures) from the translators would go directly
to the console and wouldn't be lost.

It would be easy to just use the following code (from
diskfs_console_stdio()):

          int fd = open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR);

          dup2 (fd, 0);
          dup2 (fd, 1);
          dup2 (fd, 2);
          if (fd > 2)
            close (fd);

and call that function during the init function of the libs.

(This way also user-started translators would be able to display to
console via /dev/console.)

But, it's not that easy, the problem is the following: At least the
exec server can't access /dev/console during bootstrap, since the
translator sitting on that node can't be exec()ed. So, the mach device
'console' would need to be used in that situation (libdiskfs does it
like that).

But, how can i check, wether the current process is the bootstrap exec
server? Propably via getpid() - but all this doesn't seems quite ugly.

Other method: We don't let this remapping of the fds be done
automatically from the init function of the libs, but just provide the
function and let the user call it (perhaps with some flags).

Any ideas/suggestions?

        moritz
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