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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl
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According to Alexander Viro:
> OK, I can see the point of finding out where the console is redirected
> to. How about the following:
> 
> 	/proc/sys/vc -> /dev/tty<n>
> 	/proc/sys/console -> where the hell did we redirect it or
> 			     vc if there's no redirect right now
> Will that be OK with you?

Well, I'd prefer the ioctl, but I can see the general direction the
kernel is heading to: get rid of numeric ioctls and sysctl()s and
put all that info under /proc.

However /proc/sys only contains directories now, it would look
kindof ugly to put 2 symlinks in there directly. Oh well.

Mike.
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