vt_waitactive(9)

💖 vt_waitactive(9) 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vt_waitactive — active console wait 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vt_waitactive (int n );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• n — the new console 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It’s a helper for event waits, no cap 💅

It’s used to implement the legacy event waiting ioctls in terms of events 😌✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
• vt_event_post(9)
• vt_event_wait(9)
• vt_event_wait_ioctl(9)

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signed, sealed, and delivered from ./drivers/tty/vt, October 2026, on the vt_waitactive(9) page — slay 💅✨🦋