Re: Re[2]: More no-console weirdness: /etc/mtab is corrupted

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
1 Aug 1998 11:01:22 GMT

In article <6ptn9h$ike$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>That's wrong. 4,0 is /dev/tty0. /dev/console is 5,2.

5 char Alternate TTY devices
0 = /dev/tty Current TTY device
1 = /dev/console System console
2 = /dev/ptmx PTY master multiplex

_You_ should know ;)

Mike.

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