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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Escape sequences & console
Date: 5 Mar 2001 09:20:29 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103022208050.30419-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
By author:    Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> From the source of the chvt program:
> 
>     if (ioctl(fd,VT_ACTIVATE,num)) {
>         perror("chvt: VT_ACTIVATE");
>         exit(1);
>     }
>     if (ioctl(fd,VT_WAITACTIVE,num)) {
>         perror("VT_WAITACTIVE");
>         exit(1);
>     }
> 
> Where fd is /dev/tty, /dev/tty0, /dev/console or std{in,out,err} (From the
> source, I doubt this ioctl works on all of those).
> 

/dev/tty0 would be the correct device (tty0 = current virtual
console.)

	-hpa
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