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Linux Software Map entry | 1996-11-16 | 1.5 KB | 33 lines |
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- Title = freetty
- Version = 1.0
- Desc1 = Finds the virtual console of all processes in /proc
- Desc2 = Outputs either a list of all free consoles(freetty -a)
- Desc3 = or just the one with the lowest number(just freetty).
- Desc4 = This is a useful compliment to 'doshell' and 'doprog'
- Desc5 = to e.g. start a program on the next available console.
- Author = Charles Blake
- AuthorEmail = chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu
- Maintainer = Charles Blake
- MaintEmail = chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu
- Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
- Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/utils
- File1 = freetty.c.gz
- FileSize1 = 1.5K
- Required1 = Linux 1.0 format '/proc' filesystem. Not tested on kernel versions
- Required2 = prior to 1.0, but will work as long as the 'tty' is the 7th field of
- Required3 = 'cat /proc/PID/stat'. For small binary: gcc -s -N -o freetty freetty.c
- Required4 = gzip (to uncompress file!), gcc (to compile program!)
- CopyPolicy1 = Not for sale. Distribute freely.
- Keywords = available free virtual console tty doshell doprog /proc filesystem
- Comment1 = You might want to use this as an example of the proper way to parse
- Comment2 = /proc/PID/stat. It is a little tricky if you want to allow for the
- Comment3 = most general possible basename argv[0] in /proc/PID/cmdline.
- Comment4 = (i.e. commands with word separators according to fscanf).
- RelFiles1 = none
- Entered = 04APR94
- EnteredBy = Charles Blake
- CheckedEmail = chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu
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