diff -ur busybox-0.51/init.c busybox-0.51-/init.c
--- busybox-0.51/init.c	Tue Apr 10 01:54:15 2001
+++ busybox-0.51-/init.c	Wed Jun 13 11:14:15 2001
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
 
 	/* Make it be sane */
 	tty.c_cflag &= CBAUD|CBAUDEX|CSIZE|CSTOPB|PARENB|PARODD;
-	tty.c_cflag |= HUPCL|CLOCAL;
+	tty.c_cflag |= HUPCL|CLOCAL|CREAD;
 
 	/* input modes */
 	tty.c_iflag = ICRNL | IXON | IXOFF;
@@ -909,6 +909,8 @@
 	close(0);
 	close(1);
 	close(2);
+	/* reopen console... hm... why do we close(0)? */
+	open(console, O_RDWR);
 	set_term(0);
 	chdir("/");
 	setsid();
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