From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, efault@gmx.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B30356.8060404@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920607101807j2804023v17f7643bffeb2456@mail.gmail.com>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> On any of Linux, MacOS, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD:
>
> $ ls /dev/tty /dev/ctty
> ls: /dev/ctty: No such file or directory
> /dev/tty
>
> Lord only knows why FreeBSD has both.
> Unlike Linux, they don't supply a man page.
> On a Linux system, "man 4 tty" is useful.
> On a Solaris system, "man -s 7d tty" is useful.
On System V, /dev/ctty is the primary console device (meaning that
unlike /dev/console, it cannot be redirected.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-09 5:30 Opinions on removing /proc/tty? Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 14:04 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-09 16:23 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 17:00 ` Ray Lee
2006-07-09 17:08 ` Ray Lee
2006-07-09 19:26 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 19:31 ` Russell King
2006-07-09 19:57 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-10 14:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10 15:06 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-10 22:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-11 1:07 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-11 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-08 2:56 Jon Smirl
2006-07-08 5:30 ` Randy.Dunlap
[not found] ` <9e4733910607072256q65188526uc5cb706ec3ecbaee@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-09 5:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
[not found] ` <9e4733910607082220v754a000ak7e75ae4042a5e595@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-09 5:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-09 10:07 ` Antonino A. Daplas
[not found] ` <9e4733910607090645l236f17f1sb9778f0fc6c6ca01@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-09 17:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-09 23:31 ` Antonino A. Daplas
[not found] ` <9e4733910607091744k273a7351l16abbcc6ff8c4bbd@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-11 22:01 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <9e4733910607111532s3fc2bb52q3f0247a9f2289d4e@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-13 18:37 ` Greg KH
2006-07-08 7:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-07-08 14:12 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-08 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-08 16:20 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-08 17:20 ` Russell King
2006-07-11 22:03 ` Greg KH
2006-07-08 16:12 ` Greg KH
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