Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:48:04 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: ncd (network character device) ? |
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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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