Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Bill Nottingham]

Dan Nicholson (dbn.lists at gmail.com) said: 
> Yeah, I realized that later. The writing of /var/spool/gdm/whatever
> should be done from /etc/event.d/tty1, since that's the only place you
> really know it's appropriate. I changed it so that it only happens on
> initial boot to runlevel 5 (`runlevel` = "N 5"). There is still the
> problem where getty is not started on tty1 when the display manager is
> not gdm. That would require some more smarts between /etc/event.d/tty1
> and /etc/event.d/prefdm. But that's no different than the current
> situation. I'm confident this can be done correctly, though. Patch
> attached.

Doesn't this just create a race between tty1 writing the file
and gdm trying to read it?

Bill