Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:13:06 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel |
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On 11/23/05, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote: > * Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> [2005-11-23 11:59:27 -0500]: > > Another would be to have a little user space daemon that listened to > > the pty creation, and then mknod the tty nodes as need and pipe the > > data through. That would be a first step to moving to a user space > > console implementation. > > Shouldn't this be udev then? I hear people scream when 'some deamon' > created a device in /dev. Was it udev? Was is 'ttydevd'? Even > 'ondemanddevd'?
udev listens to /sys/class for it's indications on when to create a node.
The tty daemon would need to listen for pty creation to tell it when to create a node. Then after it creates the node it needs to maintain a pipe between the pty and tty. This is a lot different than what udev does.
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