> This will result in no available text consoles, but you can still use > Crtl-Alt-Fn to switch to a blank, unused VT. He doesn't want that to be > available.
Hmmm, OK. Then there is a need for this functionality. BTW, this isn't way it works on FreeBSD with syscons, possibly other *BSDs as well. If I run getty's on vty[0-3] & X11 on vty8, I can't switch to the "unused" VTY's, it just beeps. > I think all that is needed is a simple utility to lock the VT. > The same code would be used in XFree86, but it doesn't need to be > in XFree86 to work: > > ioctl (fd, VT_LOCKSWITCH, 1); /* lock the switch */ > ioctl (fd, VT_UNLOCKSWITCH, 1); /* unlock it again */ Hmm, and how many systems will recognise those ioctls again? The original user was after a solution for Linux but I'm not interested in providing a Linux-specific solution as I'd prefer to address the generic case for all OSes that have VTY-switching support. Then it might actually be useful to me as well one day. Cheers, AS
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