Re: Console driver behaviour?

Wartan Hachaturow (wart@softhome.net)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:57:02 +0300


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:

> > any way to catch the situation? I've thought that open should
> > return ENODEV in these cases, but it doesn't..
>
> screen, perhaps? this is most definitely not a linux-kernel question.

This is most probably a console driver question, which is
kernel-specific ;)
I wonder what should console driver say when it doesn't have a real physical
console behind it. IMO, this should be a ENODEV case, or some other way
to determine programmatically that this situation takes place.
So, I am trying to find someone familar with console driver on
linux-kernel (since this driver doesn't have a specific maintainer).

If I am wrong, and linux-kernel is not relevant, sorry..

-- 
Regards, Wartan.
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