Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Splitting console driver and VT emulation

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 09:54:48 EST


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > But thats a pseudo tty. Its for a remote login. Login in remotely and
> > look to see what tty your using.
> >
> > > Any objections to this idea ?
> >
> > See the other post. You need some terminal emulation in the kernel.
>
> Other than dumb terminal - no. And you dont even need posix termios in the
> kernel - echo* is trickier in user space but the rest can be done there
> and there are OS projects that did it that way.

This went to the wrong list. Someone suggested to move ALL terminal
emulation to userland.

"Look its a text editor, not its a OS, no it Emacs"
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