[BRLTTY] Questions about the BRLTTY core and Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/12/05 at 20:08 +0100]

>IIRC it's actually the same.  

They're different. /dev/tty0 [C,4,0] is the current virtual console. 
/dev/console [C,5,1] is the current system console (which could even resolve to
a serial device).

>And in dmesg, the kernel reports that the culprit fd is indeed tty0.

That's not good.

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