Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] comments on multi-heading/console

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:24:02PM +0000, Firstname Lastname wrote:

> *chuckle*  I chopped way too much out of that one :)  ok, the conversation 
> was about just using /dev/inputX and /dev/fb, and doing the multi-heading in 
> userspace.  You agreed that it was the way to go for multi-head aware 
> programs.  I'm asking if it's possible for a user-space program to create a 
> device.  if it can, we could synthasize VT devices in userland, redirecting 
> them through our app to the framebuffer.

Telnet does exactly that, doesn't it?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs