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

From: Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 15:21:49 EST

Okay... I just checked my system. /dev/tty is (5,0), and /dev/tty0 is
(4,0). Other /dev/tty* nodes are (4, X).

/dev/tty and /dev/tty0 are the current virtual console. /dev/tty1 is the
first, /dev/tty2 is the second, etc.

I'm using RedHat 6.1

Matt Dharm

On 5 Apr 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> "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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