Is there anything wscons can do to help?
	Given it is supposed to me the console driver of choice across
	ports it would be nice to have a MI solution for this :)

		David/absolute

	Abandoning a syncing disk... or syncing an abandoned disk?

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, matthew green wrote:

> 
> 
> the problem here is that there is no clean way to find out
> the owner of /dev/console from within the kernel.  ideally
> TIOCCONS should be limited to root and this user.  this is
> something i tried to solve about 5 years ago but failed.
> 
> (perhaps it should also be based on the permissions of
> /dev/console -- world writable, and anyone can have it).
>