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Re: /etc/ttys defaults, was Persistent green messages interrupting console on NetBSD 6.99.19 i386



On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:50:39AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2013-06-05 18:57, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> >Why is it machine dependent?  Are there arch's that don't use wscons,
> >so the tty's to use end up being different?
> 
> Why do you assume all consoles are wscons based?

Because using a consistent interface for consoles seems like it would make
sense, and I assumed that wscons IS that consistent interface.  In fact,
that seem to be what the man page claims:

     The wscons driver provides support for machine independent access to the
     console.

Eric


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