From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 20:00:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00681 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00623 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 6926 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1998 04:05:50 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 24 Mar 1998 04:05:50 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-031798 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980324142542.22945@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:05:50 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Mar-98 Greg Lehey wrote: > The way I see it, getty's the wrong level. This is the system > console, and it should be able to handle X, for example. Assumptions... On my part, probably. Unless /dev/console is used and configurable. Except for X, getty should (maybe is not) be fine, as it established stdio streams for its children. It is (was) possible in X11 to specify each resource explicitly. But I am talking from faded memory, not from cold, hard, reality. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message