From owner-freebsd-bugs  Mon Jul 21 09:42:37 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-bugs>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA22867
          for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.109])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA22858;
          Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:42:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost)
          by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01256;
          Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:41:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
X-Sender: dwhite@localhost
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kbdcontrol question (possibly a bug)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970720202720.520A-100000@myname.my.domain>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721093844.1158G-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Donn Miller wrote:

> I have a question about kbdcontrol, and it may be a bug.  When using
> kbdcontrol -l mapfile to load a keyboard map on one vt, it affects the
> keyboard mappings on all vt's.

I think this is working as intended.  The man page doesn't say whether the
keymaps are VT-specifc or not, though.  You might drop Soren Schmidt
(sos@freebsd.org) a note.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo