From: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Draft docs for port console channel
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:08:41 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040125233841.GT4203@erizo.shearer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401241820.i0OIKLY3002404@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:20:21PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> dan@shearer.org said:
> > Another fumbling newbie question: why can't we just have the fd for
> > the unix socket for xterm connected before xterm is exec'd? Then there
> > would be no need for open_socket in port-helper. I'm sure there's an
> > obvious reason.
>
> I think that's just paranoia. IIRC, I was more confident about command-line
> switches getting through xterm than open file descriptors. I think I needed
> to pass an open file descriptor through telnetd because there is no way to
> influence the command line of the -L login program.
Right, I wondered if it might be because xterm support came long before
telentd. Now that you've seen telnetd working reliably, would you
accept xterm using fd passing too provided testing went ok? Factoring
out code and one less thing to worry about when porting UML to other
types of OS.
--
Dan Shearer
dan@shearer.org
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-23 3:56 [uml-devel] Draft docs for port console channel Dan Shearer
2004-01-23 14:43 ` Jeff Dike
2004-01-24 8:20 ` Dan Shearer
2004-01-24 18:20 ` Jeff Dike
2004-01-25 23:38 ` Dan Shearer [this message]
2004-01-26 18:14 ` Jeff Dike
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