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

From: Marcus Sundberg (erammsu@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 07:18:50 EST

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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

> On this system /dev/tty0 is the first virtual terminal, i.e. ALT-F1,
> while /dev/tty1 is the second, etc.

Then it's broken.

> This all depends upon the major/minor
> numbers of the devices, though so it may be different on other systems.

On Linux /dev/tty0 is the current virtual console, /dev/tty1 is the
first.

//Marcus

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