On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:32:45AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> > > This was discussed on the kernel list about four to six weeks ago and
> > > rejected then as well. See the previous discussion
> >
> > Actually I don't remember it being rejected, just the discussion dropped
> > off and there was no suggestion on how to solve the problem this ioctl
> > solves in a better way.
>
> So, what problem does it try to solve ?
how can you find the real device behind /dev/console without such ioctl?
An userspace hack watching /proc/cmdline wouldn't be reliable.
Andrea
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