Re: tty swtch key

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Mantas Mikulėnas, le Thu 27 Mar 2014 22:12:41 +0200, a écrit :
> On 2014-03-27 21:22, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > On 3/27/2014 2:40 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> > 
> >> On the other hand, there _is_ a reimplementation of shl for Linux
> >> and Solaris, as part of heirloom-toolchest
> >> <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html> and
> >> <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/man/shl.1.html>.
> > 
> > How so?  It has to be implemented in the kernel tty layer.
> 
> Not necessarily – remember that `screen` and `tmux` and `dtach` were
> implemented entirely in user space.

Err, no, they have to depend on some kernel features. For instance, you
want to be able to ^C a program running in a sudo shell. Only the kernel
can do that.

Samuel
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