Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#36 closed enhancement (fixed)
Virtual consoles overhaul
| Reported by: | Martin Decky | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | helenos/unspecified | Version: | mainline |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocker for: | Depends on: | ||
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Description
The primitive way how virtual consoles work now has to be changed. The proposal is to:
- Register individual consoles as devices to device mapper.
- Implement a virtual consolefs filesystem, which will export the registered consoles as character devices in the filesystem. The consolefs can also implement other features, such as (unnamed) pipes, etc.
- Change the way stdin/stdout/stderr are handled in libc to support the new filesystem backed framework and inheritance of the input and output.
- A functionality equivalent to
gettyto "open" virtual terminals on boot.
Change History (1)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Component: | → unspecified |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
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The proposed enhancement was implemented with some minor design modifications as of revision 4490. Unnamed pipes are not supported yet, but we are much closer to implement them.