i was dealing with rhel5 sysvinit sources and patches, for some reason.

and found interesting example.

there is a patch called sysvinit-2.86-console-open.patch

what it basicly does, it just tries to open /dev/console five times, if its not created yet.

————

— sysvinit-2.86/src/init.c.eieio 2006-08-10 15:34:23.000000000 -0400

+++ sysvinit-2.86/src/init.c 2006-08-10 15:34:50.000000000 -0400

@@ -531,8 +531,10 @@

/*

• Retry the open five times.

*/

– for(f = 0; f < 5; f++) + for(f = 0; f < 5; f++) { if ((fd = open(console_dev, m)) >= 0) break;

• usleep(100);

• }

if (fd < 0) return fd; -–-–-–-–-—