Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:51:09 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1602.1148838669@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 May 2006 11:37:24 MDT." <20060528.113724.1655407378.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20060528.113724.1655407378.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes : >Why we can't do as I suggested earlier and just make /dev/console a >pseudo-pipe that is fed from #2 and #4 and that has a well documented >'other end interface' for things like xconsole. that would simulate >the historical usage of /dev/console well. We probably _can_ do that, but it would be easier to teach syslogd about accept connections from processes interested in subscribing to events. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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