Julien Tayon writes:

>  By the way,
>  What's the use of /dev/tty (5,0) ?

Type "man 4 tty" for the details, but in short: a synonym for the
controlling terminal of a process, if any.  Like a magic symlink to
/dev/ttyXX when XX is the actual terminal in use.  Ancient UNIX thing.

Cheers,
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