Date: 06 Nov 2002 18:42:15 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors Message-ID: <1036570336.55376.120.camel@chowder.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <93096.1036569041@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <93096.1036569041@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Line disciplines sit between the filedescriptor and the tty drivers, > and interpret read/write/ioctl system calls according to their own > policies. OK.. > Currently I belive we have three working line disciplines in the kernel, > the default "tty" linediscipline, which we use on command lines and such, > the slip and the ppp line disciplines. OK, I think there is snoop too. > The ppp discipline in sys/net/tty_ppp.c, the slip discipline in > sys/net/if_sl.c > > The entire chapter 10 in the 4.4 "daemon" book is about terminals > and line disciplines. OK, I'll read up on it, I only have the 4.3 book, hope it hasn't changed too much :) The driver still exists BTW.. The main reason I wanted to have it committed is because it IS useful, and other people may find it so. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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