Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names

Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10T22:14:27Z

>> True. I see this code snippet many times:
>
> BSD has /dev/vc/0 right? I suspect that code is there to support BSD
> and make the app portable.

$ cd /dev; echo v* z*
v* zero

/dev/vc? Not in FreeBSD 6.1. FreeBSD has ttyv%d, OpenBSD ttyC%d, NetBSD uh I
forgot. In fact, I fail to see an equivalent of tty0 for any BSD. THe next best
thing is /dev/ctty (linux: /dev/tty), but which is something different than
tty0.

Jan Engelhardt
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