Re: ncd (network character device) ?

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:59:14 -0400


> Hi,
>
> Is there any patch or plan to implement network char. device like nbd for
> block devices ? It must forward data and ioctl()s through the network
> and even using of another machine's soundcard can be done without any
> software etc etc. What about this ?

I don't believe there is. I asked pavel at one point in time about that for
/dev/dsp. the problem with that is there are so many ioctls, it's hard to
do that, it would have to know about each individual driver that it connects
to on the server.

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