From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.5.69 - no setfont and loadkeys on tty > 1
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 04:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515024417.GA29602@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305142248040.13403-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> P.S
> KDGKBDTYPE. (Wow, I can't believe we still have this. It should die)
It is rather useless for determining keyboard proterties, yes.
On the other hand, quite a few utilities use it in code like
static int
is_a_console(int fd) {
char arg;
arg = 0;
return (ioctl(fd, KDGKBTYPE, &arg) == 0
&& ((arg == KB_101) || (arg == KB_84)));
}
Andries
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 11:33 [BUG] 2.5.69 - no setfont and loadkeys on tty > 1 Damian Kołkowski
2003-05-11 17:38 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-12 21:25 ` James Simmons
2003-05-13 13:06 ` Damian Kołkowski
2003-05-14 12:09 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-14 22:19 ` James Simmons
2003-05-14 22:42 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-14 23:16 ` James Simmons
2003-05-15 0:10 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-14 22:45 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-15 2:44 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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