Re: Console escape sequences

From: Zephaniah E. Hull
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 06:28:15 EST


On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:23:30PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> Hi all :))
>
> My excuses, I've had problems with my mail and lost the two
> responses to my original mail. The fact is that I've already read the
> manpage you say (console_codes(4)), but that page seems to be from
> 1996, so I was asking myself if a more recent referend existed.
>
> Is there any more up to date reference or any place in the source
> code? Thanks for the answer anyway :))) and thanks in advance for all
> your help, together with my excuses to the two persons who answered
> for having lost their emails.

The code that seems to handle it in 2.6.0-test7-mm1 is in
drivers/char/vt.c, starting in do_con_write and actually dealt with in
do_con_trol.

Good luck.

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