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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:11:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> 
> The kernel provides this information -- sort of:
> It contains the TIOCTTYGSTRUCT syscall which returns a struct. Of course,
> it changes between different kernel archs and revisions, so using it is
> an ugly hack. Grab for TIOCTTYGSTRUCT_HACK in the bootlogd.c file of the
> sysvinit sources. Shudder!

Please instead do the same thing /dev/tty does, namely a sane interface
that shows it as a symlink in /proc (or even in /dev)

		Linus

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