Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003090953160.3123-100000@maxwell.futurevision.com>
By author: James Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > > 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.
>
> This went to the wrong list. Someone suggested to move ALL terminal
> emulation to userland.
>
Which obviously is perfectly possible -- the Japanese people have done
it for a long time (kcon). There are definite advantages to being in
user space, especially if you have to worry about large font sets. It
means it's pretty hard to get information should something break
during early kernel bootup, though.
-hpa
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