Re: [BUG] 2.5.69 - no setfont and loadkeys on tty > 1

[Andries Brouwer]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:

> P.S
>     KDGKBDTYPE.   (Wow, I can't believe we still have this. It should die)

It is rather useless for determining keyboard proterties, yes.
On the other hand, quite a few utilities use it in code like

static int
is_a_console(int fd) {
    char arg;

    arg = 0;
    return (ioctl(fd, KDGKBTYPE, &arg) == 0
            && ((arg == KB_101) || (arg == KB_84)));
}

Andries