NAME

console − STREAMS-based console interface

SYNOPSIS

/dev/console

DESCRIPTION

The file /dev/console refers to the system console device.  By default it is the “workstation console” device consisting of the system keyboard and display (kd) acting in concert to emulate an ASCII terminal (see wscons(7)). 

Regardless of its configuration, the system console device provides asynchronous serial driver semantics, so that, in conjunction with the STREAMS line discipline module ldterm(7), it supports the termio(7) terminal interface. 

SEE ALSO

termios(3), ldterm(7), termio(7), wscons(7)

NOTES

The console is currently hard-coded to be the first virtual terminal of the kd driver.  This can be overridden during system boot to be a serial line.  In future releases, this distinction will be made in the file /etc/system. 
 

SunOS 5.1  —  Last change: 30 Sept 1992