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Date:      Sun, 2 Aug 1998 03:53:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS and console
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808020352520.17977-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980801174657.15420A-100000@current1.whistle.com >

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On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> this is because vga is a link to ttyv0
> and it comes first in the device database or whatever 'tty' uses to 
> figure out what you are on..
> 
> I'm not sure who added it, but it gets me here too.
> Ohowever my ttys has a line for iI think I must have added it and since
> forgotten that I did it.
> 
> not sure what teh answer is, but the same would happen without devfs
> if vga was a link to ttyv0.

As I wrote, I kind of worked around it, but it looks stupid when it says
that I'm logged in on 'vga'...

Andrzej Bialecki

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