On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Matt Busigin wrote:
>
> jedikn> Is there a generic driver that redirects a device over a
> jedikn> network? For instance, I run X applications remotely, but
> jedikn> I want things like sound to be played on my own computer.
>
> There is a network block device in 2.2 which can redirect a block device
> over the network, but I believe sound devices are character devices.
>
> There is the Enlightened Sound Daemon, which has support for what you
> want. Find it at http://www.enlightenment.org/.
>
> jedikn> This would take a client/server approach, with the client
> jedikn> being the device driver. It should probably be quite
> jedikn> configurable on both ends, and have features like only
> jedikn> certain processes owned by certain a UID would be
> jedikn> redirected, etc.
>
> jedikn> This could be used with a host of applications; Printer
> jedikn> spooling, modem sharing, network audio, etc. I know a lot
>
> There is already separate software to do most of those things, including
> modem sharing and network audio.
>
> jedikn> of these devices already have network capabilities, but I
> jedikn> think it would be far more elegant to route them all
> jedikn> through one specialized service.
> jedikn>
> jedikn> Does anybody have any thoughts, or am I over-looking the obvious?
>
> I suppose it would be cool to have a network character device to
> supplement the existing network block device. There would be issues to
> work out, such as how ioctls got passed, etc. I don't believe the network
> block device passes ioctls.
>
> Charles R. Anderson : Senior CS Major @ WPI : http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/
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