Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: New (GNU) kernels--what I think Message-ID: <13749@ncoast.ORG> Date: 13 Jun 89 23:07:33 GMT References: <2501@gandalf.UUCP> <4366@ficc.uu.net> <2514@gandalf.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 20 As quoted from <2514@gandalf.UUCP> by ml@gandalf.UUCP (Marcus Leech): +--------------- | > No, they should pull the next or previous lines from a circular buffer in | > the driver. If you're going to duplicate the history mechanism in all | | No. History buffers of a user-selectable arbitrary size don't belong in | the kernel, which I why I suggested the callback-like interrupt mechanism. +--------------- Streams, folks -- Streams with the capability to push *user-mode* modules would be best. Then any user can push his/her own module. I discussed this with der Mouse in this newsgroup some time back; if there be archives, look them up. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser