From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 6 0:12:32 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7A437B401; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0642B43E7B; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA68CFiX009694; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:42:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Robert Watson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <93096.1036569041@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <93096.1036569041@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Nov 2002 18:42:15 +1030 Message-Id: <1036570336.55376.120.camel@chowder.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 () IN_REP_TO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Line disciplines sit between the filedescriptor and the tty drivers, > and interpret read/write/ioctl system calls according to their own > policies. OK.. > Currently I belive we have three working line disciplines in the kernel, > the default "tty" linediscipline, which we use on command lines and such, > the slip and the ppp line disciplines. OK, I think there is snoop too. > The ppp discipline in sys/net/tty_ppp.c, the slip discipline in > sys/net/if_sl.c > > The entire chapter 10 in the 4.4 "daemon" book is about terminals > and line disciplines. OK, I'll read up on it, I only have the 4.3 book, hope it hasn't changed too much :) The driver still exists BTW.. The main reason I wanted to have it committed is because it IS useful, and other people may find it so. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message