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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Strange behavior with virtual console
Message-ID: <2668@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 29 Jun 90 04:43:50 GMT
References: <3245@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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in article <3245@leah.Albany.Edu>, boehme@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) says:
> I currently have four virutal consoles enabled. When I run the ps for
> the virtual console, t1 through t3 show up in the display, but t4 and
> t65 show up as a '?'. Even after rebooting, this persists.

There was a small change to ps between 1.5.6 and 1.5.10 to handle ttys with
large minor numbers. A couple of login accounting programs, such as `last'
are still confused by large minor numbers.
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Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.syd.dit.csiro.au