On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> According to Alexander Viro:
> > OK, I can see the point of finding out where the console is redirected
> > to. How about the following:
> >
> > /proc/sys/vc -> /dev/tty<n>
> > /proc/sys/console -> where the hell did we redirect it or
> > vc if there's no redirect right now
> > Will that be OK with you?
>
> Well, I'd prefer the ioctl, but I can see the general direction the
> kernel is heading to: get rid of numeric ioctls and sysctl()s and
> put all that info under /proc.
>
> However /proc/sys only contains directories now, it would look
Huh? Oh, sorry. /proc/tty, indeed - it was a braino. BTW, I think
that a mini-fs with a device node for each registered console +
symlink (say it, "default") pointing to the default one might make
sense too. Comments?
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