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tty(4)
Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-08-20 — deterministic & reproducible
Linux manual page for /dev/tty, the controlling terminal character device.
57/100
Top 93% of 11,664 measured
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Checked 2026-08-20 · scores move as sites change
Is tty(4) production-ready?
Legit.Show scores tty(4) 57 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on tty(4) (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 91/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 10/100
- Privacy — 0/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 15/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 807 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
System programmers · Linux developers · Daemon process developers
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