From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <543AB2C5.1000000@gr13.net> References: <543AB2C5.1000000@gr13.net> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:47:46 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1140403a41cdb705053d617b Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a854674-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1140403a41cdb705053d617b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 i'm a little confused by this. could you describe how this will work from a user's perspective? do you mean that a user on p9p starts 9term, but the /dev/cons is really a /dev/pts/* etc.? On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > did anyone already write virtual terminal fileserver, which allows > starting a normal unix process on a virtual terminal (on Linux > the /dev/pts/*) and provides access to it via 9P ? > > Then we could have a client/terminal connecting to it, so we have > screen(1)-alike functionality. > > > greetings > -- > Enrico Weigelt, > metux IT consulting > +49-151-27565287 > > --001a1140403a41cdb705053d617b Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i'm a little confused by this. could you describe how = this will work from a user's perspective? do you mean that=C2=A0a user = on p9p starts 9term, but the /dev/cons is really a /dev/pts/* etc.?


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consul= t <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> wrote:
Hi folks,

did anyone already write virtual terminal fileserver, which allows
starting a normal unix process on a virtual terminal (on Linux
the /dev/pts/*) and provides access to it via 9P ?

Then we could have a client/terminal connecting to it, so we have
screen(1)-alike functionality.


greetings
--
Enrico Weigelt,
metux IT consulting
+49-151-2756528= 7


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