From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 20 10:23:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA17623 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:23:00 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17605 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:22:39 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id FAA00598; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 05:18:00 +1100 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 05:18:00 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199501201818.FAA00598@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >- 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