From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:16:21 -0800 Received: from [206.207.108.63] ([206.207.108.63]:12661 "HELO ridgerun-lx.ridgerun.cxm") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:16:01 -0800 Received: (qmail 21981 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 11:15:50 -0700 Received: from gmcnutt-lx.ridgerun.cxm (HELO ridgerun.com) (gmcnutt@192.168.1.17) by ridgerun-lx.ridgerun.cxm with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 11:15:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3A27EAD6.83E03DFB@ridgerun.com> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 11:15:50 -0700 From: Gordon McNutt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: console knowledge References: <001901c05b67$8c88ab60$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <20001201185321.A3211@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing This is a little off-topic, so if people complain I can take it offline. But since this doesn't seem to be (very) common knowledge maybe others would like to see it, as well. Ralf Baechle wrote: > /dev/console (as chardev 5/1) differs from another device in some important > ways: > > - When opened by a process without controlling tty it will not become a > CTTY even if the NOCTTY flag is not set. What do you mean by "controlling tty"? And why is the distinction noted above important? I assume it has something to do with keyboard input/screen output, but perhaps you can clarify. Thanks, --Gordon