Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Splitting console driver and VT emulation

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 21:22:54 EST


> But thats a pseudo tty. Its for a remote login. Login in remotely and
> look to see what tty your using.
>
> > Any objections to this idea ?
>
> See the other post. You need some terminal emulation in the kernel.

Other than dumb terminal - no. And you dont even need posix termios in the
kernel - echo* is trickier in user space but the rest can be done there
and there are OS projects that did it that way.

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