> Weired, because I can use it in a XTerm without any problems. > Works under Woody, Sarge and Etch.
Then your permission bits on /dev/console and/or /dev/tty0 are not
as strict:
] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -eopen fgconsole
] [...]
] open("/dev/console", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR) = 3
] open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/tty0", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/tty0", O_WRONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/console", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/console", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] open("/dev/console", O_WRONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
] [...]
] Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/tty0 /dev/console
] crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console
] crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30 /dev/tty0
Regards,
Jan
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Jan C. Nordholz
<jckn At gmx net>
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