Re: Detecting keypress on console

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:11:31PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to execute a scipt when a function key is pressed on the
> console. Is there a mechanism to detect keypresses on wscons?  If I 
> make a daemon that opens /dev/console it will steal the input from
> getty/login/sh, which is not what I intend.
> 
> Any idea?

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