Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 23:13:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: didier@aida.org (Didier Derny) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: direct acces to the text screen memory Message-ID: <199510092213.XAA00728@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951009205023.395A-100000@aida> from "Didier Derny" at Oct 9, 95 08:55:01 pm
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As Didier Derny wrote: > > I dont know how to use mmap to map the screen text. Simply mmap() a descriptor pointing to a vty device. Anyway, this advantage has not only several drawbacks, it does also require a bunch of extra handling to cover all potential external influences (VT switch requests, different VT sizes, hot-key or externally triggered VT size switching, program suspend/continue by signal). Honestly, stick with curses instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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