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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: contool - Anybody managed to get it working?
Date: 11 Sep 1995 12:19:55 +0200
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Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
>My problem is that it refuses to open /dev/console.
>
>The relevant code is:-
>
> if (ioctl(fileno(slave), TIOCCONS, NULL) == -1)
> abend("%s: could not attach to /dev/console", program);
>
>Should this code work? I can't find any documentation on the TIOCCONS ioctl.
It's defined in <sys/ttycom.h>
#define TIOCCONS _IOW('t', 98, int) /* become virtual console */
So it's supposed to work. The source code for the xconsole program
does also look like it would use this way.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)