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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


  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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