Re: /dev translator

2002-05-21 Thread Niklas Höglund
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:20:27AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Someone wrote: > > > Have you thought about writing a translator for /dev itself, rather > > > than using a script to populate a directory? devfs the Hurd way. > > > > Certainl

Re: console plans

2002-02-15 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:46:56PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > I.e. the responsibility for sane gfx state should be in some > privileged process. A non-privileged user should not be able to shoot > it down (but he should still be able to kill his own X server, and > certainly his fb applications,

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:53:24PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > [...] The interesting way is to prescan as much > > characters as available, and, taking all the characters into account that > > are visible on the screen at that