>No, this does not work as expected, EVERY kernel message (fd errors, tape
>soft errors etc.) switches to vt0 if done like above.
>
>I need ideas, please ! How could pcvt possibly detect that it is getting
>DDB output ????

My guess is that DDB needs to tell it somehow.

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