Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:40:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: tom@chattpiano.com (Tom Rush) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadable line disciplines Message-ID: <199810061940.MAA21521@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810050124.VAA00729@chattpiano.com> from Tom Rush at "Oct 4, 98 09:24:42 pm"
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Tom Rush writes: > The problem, basically, is that if the "ldisc_register()" function is > used for a non-standard line discipline, a user program cannot determine > which slot in the linesw table it was assigned to, and thus cannot set > up the tty to use that discipline. We ran in to the same problem but didn't bother solving it since the line discipline number was always the same (7). However, this would be a good change and although I haven't looked at your patches yet it sounds very much like what I was thinking at the time.. Most likely will have to wait until 3.0 is branched in any case. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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