Re: Repeater for the console client

[Marco Gerards]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

>> 2) Using netfs to create /dev/console/ (the path is configurable, of
>>    course) in which translators can be stored.  This requires a change
>>    to the console client.  In that case the console client sets up the
>>    /dev/console/ translator and drivers can use some special function
>>    to set up a translator in that directory.
>
> Mh.  I think you can also do several nodes in trivfs, so using netfs
> is not mandatory to get the same effect.  However, in either case the
> console client would need to provide an intermediate layer and
> interfaces to plugins.  Seems to make sense to me to do it that way.

The problem with that would be that there is just a single global to
configure if the file can be opened read, write or readwrite.

Other that that, I just like having everything in a single directory
like /dev/console which is entirely virtual.

So I would prefer using libnetfs.  What would you like to see (and of
course, accept)?

> This should be on bug-hurd, as it is a development issue.

Right.  I'll do that next time.

Thanks,
Marco