Re: std location for system console

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:18:01PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > The cruel world outside requires us to implement ttyname(), which
> > uses the term_get_nodename RPC on the terminal node.
> 
> Ooops. Then it needs to have some canonical name.

No, the name is passed as an argument to the translator.  See what we do for
term right now (like, what I wrote down three or four mails ago).

You can also use term_set_nodename.  But whoever does this must know the
name before it can do so.

> And if the tty nodes
> end up as /dev/vts/17/tty, that is probably also the right value to
> return from ttyname().

Of course.  It must be a filename which you can use to get a new port to the
same tty.

Thanks,
Marcus

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