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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/49] tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:21:07AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
> 
> Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles to be able to determine the registered
> system console lines.  If the reading process holds /dev/console open at
> the regular standard input stream the active device will be marked by an
> asterisk.  Show possible operations and also decode the used flags of
> the listed console lines.

Err, no way we can put in code that walks the fd table and poke into
random private data for a magic number.

NAK.