Subject: Re: TTY virtualization driver
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/22/2002 11:35:30
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:29:06PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
>=20
> What if we add a driver that uses the minor number to traverse the
> ttylist to locate an instance and redirects to that driver?  That
> way you can create a set of `/dev/tty??' and `/dev/dty??' and not
> have to mess with a different set of names for each serial controller.
> (Yes, there needs to be code to skip over pty instances, but that
> should be simple.)

Oh - _IF_ you write such a beast, make them detachable, and attachable from
a different terminal.

Thats a feature from VMS that I'm really missing (although it can mostly
fixed by using screen(1pkg).

Regards,
	Ignatios

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