Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On any of Linux, MacOS, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD:
>
> $ ls /dev/tty /dev/ctty
> ls: /dev/ctty: No such file or directory
> /dev/tty
>
> Lord only knows why FreeBSD has both.
> Unlike Linux, they don't supply a man page.
> On a Linux system, "man 4 tty" is useful.
> On a Solaris system, "man -s 7d tty" is useful.

On System V, /dev/ctty is the primary console device (meaning that 
unlike /dev/console, it cannot be redirected.)

	-hpa

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