From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Akw1C-0002m2-0T for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:58:26 -0800 Received: from erizo.shearer.org ([210.10.97.33] helo=shearer.org) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.30) id 1Aktnu-000699-8b for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:36:34 -0800 From: Dan Shearer Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Draft docs for port console channel Message-ID: <20040125233841.GT4203@erizo.shearer.org> References: <20040123035639.GC4203@erizo.shearer.org> <20040123144320.GB6768@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040124082057.GG4203@erizo.shearer.org> <200401241820.i0OIKLY3002404@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401241820.i0OIKLY3002404@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:08:41 +1030 To: Jeff Dike Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel