"Richard L. Hamilton" <[email protected]> wrote: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 22, 0 Aug 6 11:44 /dev/tty > > In other words, sy implements /dev/tty...and probably > predates STREAMS-based ttys even. > > (I'm having SVR2 flashbacks, having read a lot of that code > way back when. In fact, I think back in even earlier code, > the sy driver handled something else in addition, maybe > the console, as another minor device. But maybe my memory > is playing tricks on me.)
The first streams based tty implementation was in SunOS-4.0. TIOCNOTTY was introduced by BSD and not available in AT&T versions before Svr4 Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
