Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:06 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty? |
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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
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