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zcons(7D)			    Devices			     zcons(7D)

NAME
       zcons - Zone console device driver

DESCRIPTION
       The  zcons  character  driver exports the console for system zones. The
       driver is comprised of two "sides:" a master side with  which  applica‐
       tions  in the global zone communicate, and a slave side, which receives
       I/O from the master side. The slave side is  available  in  the	global
       zones.

       Applications  must  not	depend	on  the	 location  of /dev or /devices
       entries exported by zcons. Inside a zone,  the  zcons  slave   side  is
       fronted	by  /dev/console  and  other  console-related  symbolic links,
       which are used by applications that expect to write to the system  con‐
       sole.

       The zcons driver is Sun Private, and may change in future releases.

FILES
       /dev/zcons/<zonename>/masterconsole

	   Global zone master side console for zone <zonename>.

       /dev/zcons/<zonename>/slaveconsole

	   Global zone slave side console for zone <zonename>.

       /dev/zconsole

	   Non-global zone console (slave side).

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWcsu			   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │ Interface Stability	     │Sun Private		   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       zoneadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), attributes(5), zones(5)

SunOS 5.10			  24 Aug 2003			     zcons(7D)

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