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SubjectRe: ncd (network character device) ?
Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:31:17 +0200, Gabor Lenart
<lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu> said:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:23:02PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> Supporting networked character devices is hopelessly complex. Some char
>> devices have strange mmap() requirements that you just cannot do over
>> the network. All of them have ioctl()s ...

> :) It's strange idea to share memory between Linux systems with exporting
> /dev/mem ;-) But the goal of my idea was only export /dev/dsp and other
> sound related device.

Then use esd. This is exactly my point: generic network exporting of
character devices is hard. You pretty much have to code each one
separately. esd does sound only.

--Stephen

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