From: Christoph Bussenius <busseniu@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: functions to determine dementions of console?
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:41:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040526144138.GA32207@opaque> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405231854400.11050@debian>
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:05:07PM -0400, ameer armaly wrote:
> I was wondering if there are a set of functions/system calles to let me
> know what someone's set their tty length and heighth too? I do this
> because I don't want to presume 80x25 in case someone's got it set
> otherwise.
To quote vcs(4):
/dev/vcs[1-63] are character devices for virtual console terminals,
they have major number 7 and minor number 1 to 63, usually mode 0644
and owner root.tty. /dev/vcsa[0-63] are the same, but including
attributes, and prefixed with four bytes giving the screen dimensions
and cursor position: lines, columns, x, y. (x = y = 0 at the top left
corner of the screen.)
Regards,
Christoph
--
``There's no dark side of the moon, really
Matter of fact, it's all dark''
--Pink Floyd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-26 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-23 23:05 functions to determine dementions of console? ameer armaly
2004-05-24 2:09 ` Glynn Clements
2004-05-26 14:41 ` Christoph Bussenius [this message]
2004-05-30 19:12 ` J.
2004-05-30 20:35 ` Micha Feigin
2004-05-31 19:38 ` Christoph Bussenius
2004-06-01 1:41 ` value computed is not used ?? J.
2004-06-01 3:25 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-01 7:30 ` Charlie Gordon
2004-06-01 16:08 ` Charlie Gordon
2004-06-01 21:58 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 1:26 ` Micha Feigin
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