Re: ncd (network character device) ?

Pete Wyckoff (wyckoff@ca.sandia.gov)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:17:28 -0700

lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu said:
> 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'm just finishing one that handles the few bits needed for audio. An
advance copy is at http://dancer.ca.sandia.gov/~pw/afwd-0.1.tgz which
is SMP safe, but will Oops your machine if you kill the server daemon
before the client one. I'm working on it ...

-- Pete

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