Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices console(7D)

NAME console − STREAMS-based console interface

SYNOPSIS /dev/console

DESCRIPTION The ﬁle /dev/console refers to the system console device.

SPARC The identity of this device depends on theEEPROM settingsin effect at the most recent

system reboot; by default, it is the ‘‘workstation console’’ device consisting of the works-

tation keyboard and frame buffer acting in concert to emulate anASCII terminal (see

wscons(7D)).

x86 By default the device is the ‘‘workstation console’’ device consisting of the workstation

keyboard and display (see display(7D) and keyboard(7D)) acting in concert to emulate

an ASCII terminal (see wscons(7D)).

In either architecture, regardless of the system conﬁguration, the console device provides

asynchronous serial driver semantics so that, in conjunction with the STREAMS line dis-

cipline module ldterm(7M), it supports the termio(7I) terminal interface.

SEE ALSO termios(3), ldterm(7M), termio(7I), wscons(7D)

x86 Only display(7D), keyboard(7D)

NOTES In contrast to pre-SunOS 5.0 releases, it is no longer possible to redirect I/O intended for

/dev/console to some other device. Instead, redirection now applies to the workstation

console device using a revised programming interface (see wscons(7D)). Since the sys-

tem console is normally conﬁgured to be the work station console, the overall effect is

largely unchangedfrom previous releases.

See wscons(7D) for detailed descriptions of control sequence syntax,ANSI control func-

tions, control character functions and escape sequence functions.

modiﬁed 20 Jan 1994 7D-69