Re: bruby-2.4.29 and tty0= current vc

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw...@ya...> wrote:

<snip>
> 
> But in bruby-2.4.29 you can copy from any vc but gpm
> pastes ALWAYS into the first vc, never into the
> others.
> 

I can't find where in Bruby that is supposed to
happen. So I changed gpm to paste to tty<x> instead of
to tty0 (this is in gpm-1.19.6 the Debian version:
1.20.1 has problems)

--- gpm-1.19.6/src/gpm.c~	2005-01-31
07:09:58.000000000 -0600
+++ gpm-1.19.6/src/gpm.c	2005-01-31 10:09:33.000000000
-0600
@@ -149,14 +149,32 @@

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 /* The old console options is removed. We are taking
stderr now
  * In the next update there should also be support
for syslog
+ * HVW - 01/31/2005 Changed to use /dev/ttyx instead
of /dev/tty0:
+ *                  in Bruby /dev/tty0 is the first
vc, not the current one (BUG)
 
********************************************************************/
 
 static inline int open_console(const int mode)
 {
-  int fd;
-
-  if ((fd=open(consolename, mode)) < 0)
-    oops(consolename);
+    int fd;
+    int i;							
+    char buffer1[12];						 
+    static struct vt_stat stat;					
+
+//	First open tty0 which is wrongly always pointing
to vc0   
+    if ((fd=open(consolename, mode)) < 0)			
+	oops(consolename);
+//	Then get the active vc: it points correctly		  
+//	Make a /dev/tty<x> with <x> to the active vc		  
+    if (ioctl(fd,VT_GETSTATE,&stat)<0) 				
+	oops(consolename);
+    i = stat.v_active;						
+    sprintf(buffer1,"/dev/tty%d",i);				
+    close(fd);							
+//	Now open that one instead...				
+    if ((fd=open(buffer1, mode)) < 0)				
+	oops(consolename);
+//  if ((fd=open(consolename, mode)) < 0)
+//    oops(consolename);
   return fd;
 }
 
I also have a Debian deb of gpm for it.

Hugo.





		
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