tioccons(9)

Okay bestie, welcome to the tioccons(9) page — yes, the one from the Kernel API Manual 💖. It's giving “tiny but important console admin moment,” and we’re gonna get through it together, no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

tioccons — allows the admin to move the logical console around. That’s the whole vibe: admin console relocation, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tioccons (struct file *file );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• file — the file that’s gonna become the console. Like, this is the candidate for console main-character energy, and file is literally the file to become console.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here’s the tea: this lets the administrator move the redirected console device. No gatekeeping, just admin console relocation. 🔥

Locking: it uses redirect_lock to guard the redirect information — that’s the lock on the redirect info, periodt. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c — that’s the spot, and here’s the whole friend group, bestie:

• free_tty_struct(9), tty_free_file(9), tty_name(9), get_tty_driver(9), tty_dev_name_to_number(9), tty_find_polling_driver(9), tty_wakeup(9), tty_release_redirect(9)
• __tty_hangup(9), tty_hangup(9), tty_vhangup(9), tty_vhangup_self(9), tty_vhangup_session(9), tty_hung_up_p(9), stop_tty(9), start_tty(9)
• tty_read(9), tty_write(9), tty_send_xchar(9), pty_line_name(9), tty_line_name(9), tty_driver_lookup_tty(9), tty_init_termios(9), tty_standard_install(9)
• tty_driver_install_tty(9), tty_driver_remove_tty(9), tty_reopen(9), tty_init_dev(9), tty_save_termios(9), tty_flush_works(9), release_one_tty(9), tty_kref_put(9)
• release_tty(9), tty_release_checks(9), tty_kclose(9), tty_release_struct(9), tty_release(9), tty_open_current_tty(9), tty_lookup_driver(9), tty_kopen_exclusive(9)
• tty_kopen_shared(9), tty_open_by_driver(9), tty_open(9), tty_poll(9), tiocsti(9), tiocgwinsz(9), tty_do_resize(9), tiocswinsz(9)
• tiocsetd(9), tiocgetd(9), send_break(9), tty_get_tiocm(9), tty_tiocmget(9), tty_tiocmset(9), tty_get_icount(9), alloc_tty_struct(9)
• tty_put_char(9), tty_register_device(9), tty_register_device_attr(9), tty_unregister_device(9), __tty_alloc_driver(9), tty_driver_kref_put(9), tty_register_driver(9), tty_unregister_driver(9)

Mwah 💋 — this page came from ./drivers/tty and is dated October 2026.