On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:39:36AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> Are there reasons a user would prefer console over ttyE0 (or ttyE0 over 
> console) in /etc/ttys?  Are there functional differences?

Well all output to /dev/console can be grabbed using the TIOCPKT ioctl,
since you don't want the login session output to be grabbed /dev/console is
a bad, bad idea.  Certain systems have a /dev/constty, NetBSD doesn't (yet).

	David

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