vt ioctl to get new vt requested by change_console?

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:07:06 -0500


Would anyone consider this patch? I don't know how else to get this info
from a user program. I want to use VT_RELDISP ioctl to say it's not ok
to do a VT switch, based on which VT was requested for activation. This
information is not otherwise available.

diff -ur linux-2.4.19-pre4/drivers/char/vt.c linux-2.4.19-pre4.new/drivers/char/vt.c
--- linux-2.4.19-pre4/drivers/char/vt.c Fri Nov 16 13:08:28 2001
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre4.new/drivers/char/vt.c Fri Mar 29 20:24:47 2002
@@ -735,6 +735,10 @@
return copy_to_user((void*)arg, &(vt_cons[console]->vt_mode),
sizeof(struct vt_mode)) ? -EFAULT : 0;

+ case VT_GETNEWVT:
+ return copy_to_user((void*)arg, &(vt_cons[console]->vt_newvt),
+ sizeof(int)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
+
/*
* Returns global vt state. Note that VT 0 is always open, since
* it's an alias for the current VT, and people can't use it here.
diff -ur linux-2.4.19-pre4/include/linux/vt.h linux-2.4.19-pre4.new/include/linux/vt.h
--- linux-2.4.19-pre4/include/linux/vt.h Sun Mar 24 05:09:37 1996
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre4.new/include/linux/vt.h Fri Mar 29 20:25:19 2002
@@ -51,4 +51,6 @@
#define VT_LOCKSWITCH 0x560B /* disallow vt switching */
#define VT_UNLOCKSWITCH 0x560C /* allow vt switching */

+#define VT_GETNEWVT 0x560D /* which vt has yet to complete VT_ACTIVATE */
+
#endif /* _LINUX_VT_H */
-
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