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From: kucharsk@number6.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Management of '/dev/console' on a computer server for X terminals
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.164417.23536@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 16:44:17 GMT
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In article <19900601184505.8.BARMAR@OCCAM.THINK.COM> barmar@THINK.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
 >xterm -C should only be used by someone starting up an X server on the
 >physical console.  Its purpose is to redirect console output to a
 >window so that it doesn't splat across the raw console.  I don't think
 >it affects console input at all, though.

Alas, it does on SunOS; whatever pty gets console output (via the TIOCCONS
ioctl) gets console input as well; I'll leave the drawbacks to this approach
as an exercise for the reader :-)
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