Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103022208050.30419-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
By author: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> From the source of the chvt program:
>
> if (ioctl(fd,VT_ACTIVATE,num)) {
> perror("chvt: VT_ACTIVATE");
> exit(1);
> }
> if (ioctl(fd,VT_WAITACTIVE,num)) {
> perror("VT_WAITACTIVE");
> exit(1);
> }
>
> Where fd is /dev/tty, /dev/tty0, /dev/console or std{in,out,err} (From the
> source, I doubt this ioctl works on all of those).
>
/dev/tty0 would be the correct device (tty0 = current virtual
console.)
-hpa
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