On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 09:39:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [1] one man's data is another man's commands, for starters. All networking > > protocols would fit your description. So would ANSI escape sequences ("move > > cursor to line 12 column 45" does sound like a command), so would writing > > postscript to printer, etc. > > .. and all of that is just data to the kernel. > > Yes, vt100 escape sequences etc _are_ commands, and boy have we had > bugs in that area. But there the excuse is "that's how the world is". ... along with "something similar to ncurses-based programs usable over ssh is a good thing to have, without having said ssh somehow intercept and marshal ioctls" ;-) I can just imagine something e.g. RDMA people would've designed instead... OTOH, I'm eating right now, so better not go there... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html