What program runs virtual terminals?

[Alaric]

Hey guys. O.k., here's my issue. I want to write a new screen reader for my blind girlfriend, and I think that the terminal would be a good place to start considering the amount of things she can do by just typing a command. However, I have no idea how to get the text from a virtual terminal (virtual terminal as in ctrl+alt+F2). What program runs these (at least on ubuntu)? I'd like to study it's source code for a while to see if I can find a good way to read off stdout. Thanks in advance for your help guys .

[kakariko81280]

The program that accepts your login details is probably getty

chris@angua:~$ ps ax | grep tty
 6333 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
 6334 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
 6338 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
 6339 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
 6340 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
 6341 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
 7024 tty7     Rs+    3:30 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-eNeEyF
 9989 pts/1    D+     0:00 grep tty

The actual shell once you've logged in is probably bash, this can be checked as follows.

chris@angua:~$ grep chris /etc/passwd
chris:x:1000:1000:Chris<snip>:/home/chris:/bin/bash

The last field is the shell program.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on,

Chris...