In article <[email protected]>,
Tomko <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Which device is /dev/console pointing to ? or is it a virtual device ?
>Actually why this node is made?
See linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt
>Why kernel default not providing a control terminal on /dev/console but
>on other device ?
Because some daemons open /dev/console to send last resort error
messages to, and you do not want them to unexpectedly gain a
controlling tty.
>It is not surprising that we can use CTRL-C to terminate some process on
>i386 linux on the Desktop machine, is that mean the shell on our
>desktop is not using /dev/console ? so where are the shell running on?
/dev/tty1, /dev/tty2 etc
Mike.
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