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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Cedric Roux <sed@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: /dev/vcs or /dev/tty local colormap retrieving
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> 3 - have a new ioctl, preferably on /dev/vcsaX
>     or /dev/vcsX, but might also be available
>     for /dev/ttyX (/dev/vcsaX seems more
>     natural, because this device already exports
>     attributes of characters).

This is probably the right approach.