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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:42:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: Question on /sys/class/tty/tty0/active
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:40:07 +0200
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm booting 3.6-rc6 using KVM and observe the following output:
> $ tty
> /dev/tty0
> $ cat /sys/class/tty/tty0/active
> tty1
> 
> Why does the active file say I'm on tty1?
> There is no tty1, I'm on tty0.
> (Also "who" reports tty0)

tty0 is the current vt, tty1 is a direct mapping to that vt.

So it looks correct to me.