Hi, I'm a bit confused about terminal devices. console(4) man page says: "There are 63 consoles /dev/ttyn where 1<= n <= 63". It also says: "The _current_ console is addressed by /dev/console or /dev/tty0" On tldp text-terminal how-to it says: "/dev/tty stands for the _controlling_ terminal" Now is it true that /dev/console = /dev/tty0 = /dev/tty? If they're different ( I presume they are, since typing echo foo > /dev/console doesn't appear on my xterm window whereas echo foo > /dev/tty does). What is the difference? By naming convention what would "controlling" and "current" mean here? Also it wouldn't do harm perhaps if I asked what "console" and "terminal" stand for by definition? Many thanks, Bahadir -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
