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Re: rt 7.1D: show_console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 5 17:12:33 1990
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 90 17:12:12 -0400
To: qjb@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: testers [0996]
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
[0996] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU testers 08/03/90 12:24 (18 lines)
Subject: rt 7.1D: show_console
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 90 12:24:14 -0400
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: tabetha
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.1D
What were you trying to do?
Show someone how to use show_console (since I don't use xlogin :-) )
What's wrong:
Said person uses xterm -C. show_console prints a
message to /dev/console, so it didn't work.
What should have happened:
It should have printed the message to /dev/ttyv0. I'm
glad this bug existed. We got a good laugh out of it :-)
Actually, use of "ttyv0" is more inappropriate; there is no guarantee
that the console window will be ttyv0. If the pty is in use, you will
find that the console will use a different tty/pty.
Perhaps, what we need is a way to force console output back to the
console window, but you can't force output to go to a different tty than
your controlling tty, so either we have to force something to signal
xlogin/xconsole to re-grab the console, or some kernel hacks need to be
done.
-Richard
