Richard B. Johnson said:
<snip>
> It is impossible to send escape sequences to an input that does
> not exist. That's why I need to know how to stop the kernel's
> insistence on turning off the screen.
from 'strace setterm -blank 0':
write(1, "\33[9;0]", 6) = 6
which means you want to write the escape sequence to standard output (fd
1), or /dev/tty0 if your code is not attached to the current console. This
should be independent of any input devices that may or may not be there.
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