* Jon Smirl <[email protected]> [2005-11-23 12:13:06 -0500]:
> On 11/23/05, Marc Koschewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * Jon Smirl <[email protected]> [2005-11-23 11:59:27 -0500]:
> > > Another would be to have a little user space daemon that listened to
> > > the pty creation, and then mknod the tty nodes as need and pipe the
> > > data through. That would be a first step to moving to a user space
> > > console implementation.
> >
> > Shouldn't this be udev then? I hear people scream when 'some deamon'
> > created a device in /dev. Was it udev? Was is 'ttydevd'? Even
> > 'ondemanddevd'?
>
> udev listens to /sys/class for it's indications on when to create a node.
>
> The tty daemon would need to listen for pty creation to tell it when
> to create a node. Then after it creates the node it needs to maintain
> a pipe between the pty and tty. This is a lot different than what udev
> does.
I didn't mean to _say_ that it's the same. I just meant to _ask_ how you
are going to tell the users which daemon created what devices in /dev. I
would rather do the 'udev appoach' then (extend it in other words) so
that there's just one daemon that creates device nodes.
Marc
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