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As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture:



enter image description here



My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from the systemd.



As my understanding, a normal user-process can print things on the screen because the system gives it three file descriptors: 0, 1 and 2. We can find them at /proc/<PID>/fd/. Here is an example:



root@X86-Xenial-6:~# ls /proc/3467/fd
0 1 2 255


The 3467 is a hello-world program, I don't know what 225 is but I know that 0, 1 and 2 are standard input, standard output and standard error.



So, I have a question: when the system starts to shutdown, reboot or startup, user-process hasn't been created or has been destroyed, which means that /proc/ doesn't exist anymore, in this case, 0, 1 and 2 doesn't exist.



So why does the message coming from systemd can be printed on the screen? The kernel could print things because it controls the screen immediately, but I don't think systemd belongs to the kernel, so how could it print things on the screen too? What kind of function or api is used?









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    As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture:



    enter image description here



    My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from the systemd.



    As my understanding, a normal user-process can print things on the screen because the system gives it three file descriptors: 0, 1 and 2. We can find them at /proc/<PID>/fd/. Here is an example:



    root@X86-Xenial-6:~# ls /proc/3467/fd
    0 1 2 255


    The 3467 is a hello-world program, I don't know what 225 is but I know that 0, 1 and 2 are standard input, standard output and standard error.



    So, I have a question: when the system starts to shutdown, reboot or startup, user-process hasn't been created or has been destroyed, which means that /proc/ doesn't exist anymore, in this case, 0, 1 and 2 doesn't exist.



    So why does the message coming from systemd can be printed on the screen? The kernel could print things because it controls the screen immediately, but I don't think systemd belongs to the kernel, so how could it print things on the screen too? What kind of function or api is used?









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      As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture:



      enter image description here



      My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from the systemd.



      As my understanding, a normal user-process can print things on the screen because the system gives it three file descriptors: 0, 1 and 2. We can find them at /proc/<PID>/fd/. Here is an example:



      root@X86-Xenial-6:~# ls /proc/3467/fd
      0 1 2 255


      The 3467 is a hello-world program, I don't know what 225 is but I know that 0, 1 and 2 are standard input, standard output and standard error.



      So, I have a question: when the system starts to shutdown, reboot or startup, user-process hasn't been created or has been destroyed, which means that /proc/ doesn't exist anymore, in this case, 0, 1 and 2 doesn't exist.



      So why does the message coming from systemd can be printed on the screen? The kernel could print things because it controls the screen immediately, but I don't think systemd belongs to the kernel, so how could it print things on the screen too? What kind of function or api is used?









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      As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture:



      enter image description here



      My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from the systemd.



      As my understanding, a normal user-process can print things on the screen because the system gives it three file descriptors: 0, 1 and 2. We can find them at /proc/<PID>/fd/. Here is an example:



      root@X86-Xenial-6:~# ls /proc/3467/fd
      0 1 2 255


      The 3467 is a hello-world program, I don't know what 225 is but I know that 0, 1 and 2 are standard input, standard output and standard error.



      So, I have a question: when the system starts to shutdown, reboot or startup, user-process hasn't been created or has been destroyed, which means that /proc/ doesn't exist anymore, in this case, 0, 1 and 2 doesn't exist.



      So why does the message coming from systemd can be printed on the screen? The kernel could print things because it controls the screen immediately, but I don't think systemd belongs to the kernel, so how could it print things on the screen too? What kind of function or api is used?







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