From owner-freebsd-audit Sun May 20 6:12:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6396837B424; Sun, 20 May 2001 06:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4KD7lG26613; Sun, 20 May 2001 14:07:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:07:47 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Integrating new scrshot(1) utility into vidcontrol(1) [patch for review] Message-ID: <20010520140747.B25841@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010519194435.A22224@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <200105191939.f4JJdjr00870@mail.uic-in.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105191939.f4JJdjr00870@mail.uic-in.net>; from sobomax@mail-in.net on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:39:47PM +0300 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:39:47PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > BTW, I think that the kernel's part of this feature has > to be extended to dump not only visible portion of the > screen buffer, but the whole history buffer as well. What > do you think? Shouldn't be too hard.=20 (a) It should be optional, either as a flag to the existing ioctl, or as a new ioctl. (b) CONS_GETINFO will need to be extended (or we need a new ioctl for the scrollback) to include information about how big the scrollback buffer is. (c) It might be worth providing a mechanism to let the application specify a rectangular window that it wants to grab from the buffer. I'm a bit busy most of this week, but I might be able to do this toward the end of the week. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsHwaMACgkQk6gHZCw343W2jwCeKrsTl/RAQLL0rPfCXMH5xQAW YmgAnR1jKRr+kt1eFZeqx5Wr5lWRr2Ub =BHUD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message