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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual Terminal Date: 15 Jun 1997 21:26:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5o1mlm$a6d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <EBs4uz.34v@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42850 Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote: > I tried various /etc/ttys configurations (2.2.1) and if I > don't run getty I get a beep when I try to Alt+Fn. syscons' vtys are being initialized as soon as a process holds them open. Of course, whenever the process closes them, _all_ ressources are being freed. So even if the same process then reopens the vty, the previous screen contents will be lost. pcvt's vtys are persistent. You can even switch to them while no process holds them open, and can examine the old contents. syscons' behavior is more an artifact of the dynamic screen buffer allocation than intention. (pcvt uses fixed initialization at sysinit time.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)