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SubjectRe: Questions from a kernel hacker wannabe
The consoles are instances of the getty program (mingetty is the version
used in rh 5.2 and suse 6.1) called from /etc/inittab. it shows up in ps
ax as /sbin/mingetty ttyX. I don't know how it traps alt+fX, but mingetty
source would probably be illuminating as to how userland processes can.

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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Matthew wrote:

>
> I've been using Linux for about two years, and I'm a fairly competant C
> programmer. It's time for those two worlds to collide. I have a question:
> When you hit ALT-F1,2,3,4,5,6 to switch consoles, is that handled by a routine
> in the kernel, or an early-loaded userspace program? If it's handled by the
> kernel then where? I've rgrep-ed a hole in my disk trying to find it.
> The ultimate goal is to add a special ALT-F12 function, so finding the ALT-F?
> handler would be very helpfull as an example.
>
> Thanks,
> -- To segfault is human, to blue screen is moronic... ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Matthew matthew@mattshouse.com http://www.mattshouse.com


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