How to avoid /bin/sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off at embedded system

Friends, when I started working with ARM boards I faced much more problems on interfacing board with my development pc, and this is also one of such. Eventhough I managed to start terminal(after u-boot process) of target system I am unable to control my terminal by means of [ctrl] + [c] when terminal hangs at some thing. In my application, there was a test in that terminal of target will hang and I need to take back my terminal by pressing ctrl + c. After googling I found that my target is running terminal at /dev/console so to make a controllable terminal I need to run terminal at some other device such as /dev/tty0 – /dev/tty4. But since we are dealing with embedded system, serial device becomes handy, so I decided to run terminal at /dev/ttyS0 which is first serial device of my system.

Fault,

When my embedded system boots up, I saw this line,

/bin/sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off

Steps I followed,

1) I added following line to /etc/inittab (configuration file for /sbin/init)

ttyS0::askfirst:/bin/sh

My /etc/inittab looks like,

# /etc/inittab: init configuration for /sbin/init

# running /etc/init.d/rcS for mounting /proc and /sys file system

::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
ttyS0::askfirst:/bin/sh
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
::restart:/sbin/init

2) creating character device at /dev directory of target with major number 4 and minor number 64 (you can refer this values from your development pc)

$ mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64

3) Time to reboot,

After rebooting, my system works fine and I can use [ctrl] + [c] as normal, and this line “/bin/sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off ” does not exists.

FYI,

My startup script /etc/init.d/rcS is

#!/bin/sh

# just dummy to mount /proc and /sys

mount -vt proc proc proc
mount -vt sysfs sysfs sys

Enjoy..!