Hi,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Is there anything like Linux's /dev/vcs* in FreeBSD? That is, some way
> to obtain the complete view of a virtual console - characters, attributes,
> everything?
I've written a module which implements something like this - for
every console, there's a device where you can read that console's
content or scrollback buffer (selectable per #define).
It's still very crude, though. For example the output routine may
need work. (Right now it renders similar to man(1), i.e.
"more /dev/ttyvbuf0" shows kernel messages in bold.)
Also, it doesn't take a "snapshot" which means that reading a buffer
while there's output on that console may give a garbled view.
You can find it here:
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/freebsd/misc/ttyvbuf.tgz
I've written this on FreeBSD-current but I think it'll also work
on 4.x. Maybe it is of some use to you.
Bye, Philipp
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