Angelo writes: > > > > If that's the case, then it would be good if we can keep speaker(4). > > > > I have multiple headless systems at home which start to beep under > > > > certain conditions, to alert me.
Just as an aside, in the mid-90s I hacked FreeBSD's morse(6) to send the real thing out /dev/speaker (or whatever they called it there). My system monitoring tools would then send short morse code announcements out the on-board "speaker" device. I very much would *not* want that sort of thing going out through the "hifi" audio interface where I was, say, listening to music. And that's still true today, so I think there's a very good use case for keeping speaker(4) around. And this motivates me to see if I still have that patched version of morse lying around. I should spin it up under Open, if only because I could desperately use some code copying practice :-) --lyndon
