Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:52:30 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Console mapping problems? [I hear about these - I wanna know!] |
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Anybody thinking about implementing something like selections / unicode or whatever mapping in the KERNEL, should have a look at the window program found in the 4.4BSD-Lite distribution or at the xterm source code found in the X11 distributor. ALL such kind of things should be properly implemented entierly in USER SPACE as virtual terminal servers. Even the console switching capabilities should be there and NOT in the kernel.
The main kernel console should remain what it's supposed to be: Just a simple console nothing more.
There You don't have to worry about mapping tables space restrictions or therelike, becous it's all user space and nicely swappable.
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