Re: Writing to /dev/tty0 behaving like writing to /dev/null.

From: Dave Mielke (dave@mielke.cc)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 07:07:34 EST

[quoted lines by Richard B. Johnson on April 5, 2000, at 07:43]

>On this system /dev/tty0 is the first virtual terminal, i.e. ALT-F1,
>while /dev/tty1 is the second, etc. This all depends upon the major/minor
>numbers of the devices, though so it may be different on other systems.

No, I don't believe that to be correct. /dev/tty0 is the current virtual
terminal, /dev/tty1 is the first, /dev/tty2 is the second, etc. It is possible
that some system has set it up another way, but that system would then be
non-standard. From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt:

  4 char TTY devices
                  0 = /dev/tty0 Current virtual console
                  1 = /dev/tty1 First virtual console
                 63 = /dev/tty63 63rd virtual console 

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