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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:04:01 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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Hi!

Friday, 18 May, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf AT redhat DOT com wrote:

CF> Any thoughts?

CF> cgf

CF> ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> -----

CF> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
CF> To: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
CF> Subject: fhandler redesign
CF> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:58:24 -0400

CF> I would like to start thinking about an fhandler redesign.  The current
CF> method is, IMO, too bulky and not layered enough.

CF> One problem is that there is no real "device" layer so many things are
CF> copied around between fds that should only exist at the device layer.

CF> One example of this is your recent save/restore screen changes.  There
CF> should only be one save screen buffer and it should only exist at the
CF> device layer.  Since we don't have a real device layer, we have to
CF> save the screen buffer in an opened fd.

there's a problem with persistent-across-address-space-boundaries
information, and functionality, associated with it. we should either
designate one of cygwin processes to be "master" for some device,
like it's done with ttys, or use separate server.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19