From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: changing to another virtual console... Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:13:02 GMT
In article <1992Jul22.045943.925@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca>, dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans) writes:
| The SVR4/386 systems and SCO Xenix provide ioctl's to do this.
| I think Linux should just follow suit and use those. Why add extra
| pain to people porting applications that use the ones already in existence?
The world is breaking down to BSD and V.4, and BSD is going away...
please use the SVR4 standard rather than xenix, if they differ. I agree
that reinventing the wheel is not the way to go.
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