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HP-UX 11i Version 3: February 2007
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NAME

console, systty, syscon — system console interface

DESCRIPTION

/dev/console provides a termio interface to the device configured as the system console. The init(1M) manpage discusses the uses of /dev/systty and /dev/syscon.

Output data normally sent to the console, either through /dev/console or generated by a kernel printf(), may be redirected to another terminal or pseudo-terminal device through the TIOCCONS ioctl(). See termio(7) for details.

FILES

/dev/console /dev/systty /dev/syscon

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

console: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2

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