On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:27:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > An alternative strategy (for the dynamic case) is to have the client > > > hand a port for the file to the console server, which can then read > > > from it exactly as if it were a file (which it normally will be). > > > > Yeah, maybe. But that is certainly more of a burden on the server to stay > > robust that just handing it the data directly. > > It's a lot easier on everything, I think. > > The client can just open the file, and then hand the handle over to > the server. > > The server can just read it exactly as it reads the file itself on > startup in the passive translator case.
What about the other way round? The user writes the data to /dev/hwcon/keyboard1/layout Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
