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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.

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