a solution: add a /dev/keyboard for that purpose. restrict its use to
local users, under the same scheme as one would do for /dev/audio; this
permission scheme is probably userland, but the idea of a /dev/keyboard
is not. As I see it, /dev/tty0 would be reading from /dev/keyboard to get
its info, and then pass it along to the proper /dev/tty[1-9]...
I say that from the point of view of a very light kernel hacker. I wrote
this script while reading the kernel's sources, and this is one of a
handful of things i've done:
foo=1
while [ true ]; do
echo -n -e '\033[12;'$foo']'
foo=`expr \( $foo % 4 \) + 1`
sleep 1
done
all other things i've done are palette reconfiguration scripts, clumsy
patches to the joystick.o driver (to enable the two extra buttons when the
two extra pots don't exist), and a joystick-to-mouse converter that sucks.
matju
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