Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the long term--and there is no reason one could not implement this right > away--we would indeed like this to be done outside the kernel in a server, > and probably term is the right place. This server would access the > keyboard and display devices at a lower level, the way the X server does, > as opposed to the character-oriented kernel console device interface that > term uses now.
Absolutely! It's a very ugly wart right now that the Mach console driver is used to interpret keyboard codes and do terminal emulation. All that should be in a user-level process; it should be a separate backend from the `devio' backend that term already has. Basically, this needs someone to think up a suitable Mach interface (pretty much one already exists for keyboard input, IIRC) and then write the appropriate backend spec for term. Thomas
