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 applications 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 console.

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:

See Also

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