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Subject: Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?
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On 7/10/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >
> > Just do /proc/*/tty links and all will be good. This even
> > handles the case of two different names for the same dev_t.
> >
> Is this for the controlling tty? Then it should be ctty.

Eeeew, an extra byte so it can look ugly.
What other special tty is there?

It's always been "tty" in the kernel as far as I know.
See "struct tty_struct *tty" in sched.h's struct signal_struct.

Various "ps" programs have always used "TTY" or "TT".
This makes "tt" more reasonable than "ctty".