Hi,

In daemon/getvt.c:get_free_vt(), gdm loops using VT_OPENQRY() and dummy-opening
VTs below GdmFirstVT, just for getting a free VT. This is quite poor:
while doing that, gettys will find that their assigned VT are being used,
and hence delay their initialization.

A better approach would be to open "/dev/tty1" (which is always busy anyway),
and on that, call

 struct vt_stat vtstat;
 ioctl(fd, VT_GETSTATE, &vtstat);

and just directly open /dev/ttyn where n is the first available VT whose
bit is 0 in vtstat.v_state, starting from GdmFirstVT.

Regards,
Samuel


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