freetty

Version:

1.0

Description:

Finds the virtual console of all processes in /proc Outputs either a list of all free consoles(freetty -a) or just the one with the lowest number(just freetty). This is a useful compliment to 'doshell' and 'doprog' to e.g. start a program on the next available console. You might want to use this as an example of the proper way to parse /proc/PID/stat. It is a little tricky if you want to allow for the most general possible basename argv[0] in /proc/PID/cmdline. (i.e. commands with word separators according to fscanf).

Keywords:

available free virtual console tty doshell doprog /proc filesystem

Author:

chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu (Charles Blake)

Maintained-by:

chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

Primary-site:

sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/utils 1536 freetty.c.gz

Copying-policy:

Not for sale. Distribute freely.

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