[BRLTTY] Questions about the BRLTTY core and Linux

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Dec 5 13:06:58 EST 2006


[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/12/05 at 18:38 +0100]

>I guess you meant tty0.

SAK.txt actually says /dev/console.

>The problem is that we need to open /dev/tty0 for various stuff like
>emulating key presses, knowing the current VT, etc.  

tty0 should be okay. I'll look into closing /dev/console. Note that other
platforms, which don't have an equivalent to tty0, will still be a problem.

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