On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:56:42 -0500 Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote: > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2015/01/22 at 00:46 +0100] > > >Reading is fine, since it's done through /dev/vcsa, which doesn't count > >in VT_GETSTATE. > > Not exactly. The tty device still needs to be opened in order to do things > like > fetch the Unicode map. > > It's possible, of course, that things like the Unicode map, the screen font > map, the character translation table, etc are common to all vts, in which > case > they could be fetched from tty1. I'm not familiar enough with the internals > to > know for sure. > > I noticed a comment in the source for systemd-logind stating that tty1 is > special, so using it would seem to be okay. We still need to be sure that all > of what we need for mapping the font positions returned by the vcs devices > back > to the original characters is common to all ttys so that fetching them from > tty1 would be valid for other ttys.
Hi Samuel, hi Dave, could you give me an update on this issue? Is this still an issue? Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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