Aha! And that flash of inspiration, plus a fresh look, made me realise that sysvinit only does ioctl(TIOCSCTTY) for the sysinit process - it doesn't do it for any usual runlevel change ones.
So Upstart is just fine here ** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- compat: sysv-rc not console owner https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs