Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> (25/02/2011):
> > Testing the standard output and standard input never worked because
> > they are redirected by Debconf.  In particular /usr/bin/tty outputs
> > "not a tty".  For a long time the following code worked:
> > 
> >     case `readlink /proc/self/fd/2` in
> >         /dev/tty[0-9]*|/dev/vc/[0-9]*|/dev/console)
> >             echo we ARE on the Linux console.
> 
> FWIW, /proc/self/fd only exists on Linux.

Is 'fgconsole' of any help if one could combine it with knowing which
vt's have X currently running?

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Len Sorensen