Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2) Using netfs to create /dev/console/ (the path is configurable, of >> course) in which translators can be stored. This requires a change >> to the console client. In that case the console client sets up the >> /dev/console/ translator and drivers can use some special function >> to set up a translator in that directory. > > Mh. I think you can also do several nodes in trivfs, so using netfs > is not mandatory to get the same effect. However, in either case the > console client would need to provide an intermediate layer and > interfaces to plugins. Seems to make sense to me to do it that way.
The problem with that would be that there is just a single global to configure if the file can be opened read, write or readwrite. Other that that, I just like having everything in a single directory like /dev/console which is entirely virtual. So I would prefer using libnetfs. What would you like to see (and of course, accept)? > This should be on bug-hurd, as it is a development issue. Right. I'll do that next time. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
