Re: console-setup for FreeBSD

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:31:38PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> 
> Not sure about the Debian userland, but the standard FreeBSD way
> would be to use tty(1):
> 
> $ tty
> /dev/ttyv0

Ah, thanks.

Does it make sence to use

tty <&2

if the standard input is redirected no longer from tty?  Yes, it is 
strange to use stderr as input but this seems to work on Debian with 
Linux:

$ tty <&2
/dev/tty1
$ (tty <&2) </dev/zero
/dev/tty1
$ (tty  ) </dev/zero
not a tty

Anton Zinoviev