Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 04:44:17 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.5.69 - no setfont and loadkeys on tty > 1 |
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> P.S > KDGKBDTYPE. (Wow, I can't believe we still have this. It should die)
It is rather useless for determining keyboard proterties, yes. On the other hand, quite a few utilities use it in code like
static int is_a_console(int fd) { char arg;
arg = 0; return (ioctl(fd, KDGKBTYPE, &arg) == 0 && ((arg == KB_101) || (arg == KB_84))); }
Andries
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