Re: console alertness - notifying of console activities

[Jacek K. <kop...@in...>]

 > I think you put too much in the kernel, and you completely ignore
 > multi-heads setup. What you can probably do better is:
 > Have an event mask for every console (beep, write, cursor move, etc.)
 > and whenever an unmasked event occurs, write a packet describing the
 > event and which console to a char misc device. Then, a user space daemon
 > can read the events, and decide what to do.

Thanks for suggestions. 8-)
I recall now that policy shouldn't go into the kernel. 8-)
This was a quick-and-dirty patch to satisfy my needs. And it was made
for the 2.2.12 kernel without any consideration for future, so in
linuxconsole-dev I was actually only asking whether I should go on
with this (and implement that char device and other suggestions) or if
it's all unneeded and useless crap. 8-)
 AND I didn't know much about the kernel workings, certainly not
enough to even think of making a device. 8-) I'll probably be able to
study more during the summer, if I'm told it's useful and acceptable.

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