Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Booting into /bin/bash | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:15:19 -0500 |
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: >In article <8pjlk6$vnf$1@enterprise.cistron.net> you wrote: > >>>However, ^C does not stop anything. No signal gets sent to anybody. >>>I don't want to make it too large because it won't fit on a floppy >>>if I do. >> >> That means you don't have a controlling tty. > >But why is /dev/console not a tty? Is there any good reason, >or is just "because nobody has done it"?
Sometimes /dev/console is a printer, or an uninitialized tty being used as a printer (serial dot matrix printers make excellent trace logs). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@cats-chateau.net
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