Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:35:21 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 10:57 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl: >>> A few apps do rely on /proc/tty/drivers for the major-minor >>> to device name mapping. /dev/vc/0 does not exist (unless >>> created manually) without devfs. >> This is why I questioned if /proc/tty was really in use, it contains >> an entry that is obviously wrong for my system. > > Which tools already know about.
True. I see this code snippet many times:
fd = open("/dev/vc/0", FLAGS); if (fd == -1) fd = open("/dev/tty0", FLAGS); > What is so hard to understand about the > idea that pointless random changes break stuff and don't fix things.
But since we're killing devfs, changing /dev/vc/0 to /dev/tty0 will be one of the nails in devfs' coffin :-)
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