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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: 3C501 Ether driver, XS3+codrv Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 23:09:28 GMT Message-ID: <C3qyzt.30v@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Mar9.043947.4016@netcom.com> <1993Mar10.213242.423@netcom.com> <1993Mar11.090535.9238@gmd.de> Lines: 16 In article <1993Mar11.090535.9238@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > 'screen' was always a good example for me of how things could work. > Unfortunetely, from a number of mails, there seemed to be consensus, > to have "virtual terminals" with real login (I believe just because > all the other UNIXes have them as well). That could be simply handled with a 'screen' type daemon as well. In fact, screen could do the job if it spawned getty. Still, it's kind of nice to have those virtual consoles still work when the system is pretty hosed, which wouldn't be the case with a daemon. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.