> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 03:18:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@lx1.tx.ncsu.edu>
> To: Joe Fouche <fouche@cco.caltech.edu>
> Cc: boldt@math.ucsb.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: vc scrollback
>
> >On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Axel Boldt wrote:
> >
> >> I believe the whole vc system is fundamentally flawed. It is not the
> >> kernel's business to do console scrolling or console switching. That's
> >> to be done by a user process, namely by screen, available from all GNU
> >> sites. It multiplexes a character terminal, giving you all the
> >
> >ABSOLUTELY. Great idea. The more mature Linux gets, the more we (he? :)
> >should filter out things that were really put in there to make
> >development nicer, etc. It saves memory, etc.
> >
>
> I don't think so... if you want a single console like all the other crappy
> Unices around, then either go buy one of them or edit your kernel to set
> the maximum number of consoles to 1 or 2...
>
> --cramer "I like VC's"
I'd like vc hooks in the kernel, and a user-space way to use them.
keep the VC system the way it is, but allow a user process to modify
the kernel vc table. And to those who mentioned using screen on
a single local console... bleaguh! alt-f1 through ctl-leftalt-shift f12
is much nicer. BUT:
if there were hooks in the kernel for it, then a dumb-terminal on
the serial port could be sending _IT'S_ alt-f1 sequence, and pulling
a vc that way. (perhaps like screen does, ttyq etc.)
besides, X needs the vc's as is, and I'm sure that everyone would
_LOVE_ to have to recompile their x server to do the switching itself.
So, internal stays as is, but how about: select_vc(), etc. that
can be used as well as the internal alt-fkey hooks.
just my 2c
Dan Merillat <Dan.Merillat@eola.accessorl.net>
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