RE: [PATCH v3 2/2] tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled

[David Laight]

From: Samuel Thibault
> Sent: 28 June 2023 07:07
...
> > So is there really no solution for brltty and TIOCSTI being disabled?
> 
> No, there is no way to simulate characters on the Linux console. The
> alternative would be to use uinput, but that simulates keycodes, not
> characters, thus requiring backtranslating first, which is very fragile.

It could probably be rewritten to use a pseudo-tty pair.
It might even be possible to emulate (the functionality of) TIOCSTI
in the relay process that handles the pseudo-tty.

	David

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