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Date:      Sat, 21 Jan 1995 05:18:00 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Subject:   Re: More serial console stuff...
Message-ID:  <199501201818.FAA00598@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>- ps and w get confused (w especially): I don't know how many of you
>  have noticed this, but if you actually edit /etc/ttys and replace
>  'ttyv0' with 'console' (which should be allowed), ps still says that

It isn't really allowed.

>  your tty is 'v0' (it should say 'co'). w gets into trouble too, with

ps looks at the t_dev entry in struct tty.  sio and the current syscons
make no distintion between the console device and the minor-0 device.
They store the minor-0 device in t_dev.  ps has no chance of converting
this back to `co'.

Bruce



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