David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The console clearly is exclusively a feature of the kernel. >> >> The console is implemented by the kernel, but you use it to log in >> to the whole system. > > There are embedded Linux systems that are most definitely not GNU, and > for example the system at <URL:http://www.skarnet.org/poweredby.html> > runs Linux, but not the GNU system.
Does Emacs run on those systems? The "Linux kernel console" -- as the user sees it on a GNU/Linux system-- is typically just a process started by the kernel which runs "/bin/sh". So when the user interacts with the console, he is interacting with GNU software (e.g. bash), not the kernel. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
