Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:02:09 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtual console 'snapshot'? Message-ID: <xzpr968zvxq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Peter Pentchev's message of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:17:53 %2B0300" References: <20000923011753.A15311@ringwraith.office1.bg>
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Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> writes: > Is there anything like Linux's /dev/vcs* in FreeBSD? That is, some way > to obtain the complete view of a virtual console - characters, attributes, > everything? The snoop device gives deltas, but never the complete > picture, unless the program running on that console decides to redraw > the whole thing. It shouldn't be difficult to implement, unless you want the snapshot to be consistent per-session - in which case you need to store a copy of the vty buffer at the moment the device is opened, which I don't think is possible in FreeBSD. Apart from that, the only ugliness is the need to fondle syscons' privates. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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