NAME¶

Isserial - determines if the underlying tty of stdin is a serial line

SYNOPSIS¶

isserial [< /dev/console]

DESCRIPTION¶

iserial determines if the underlying character device of the current stdin is a serial line. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device to check if the console is a serial line.

The exit status of iserial is 0 if stdin is a serial line otherwise not.

FILES¶

/dev/console

the system console.

SEE ALSO¶

console(4), tty(4),

COPYRIGHT¶

2003 Werner Fink, 2003 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR¶

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>