Consoles, past and future.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 2 03:01:00 PDT 2005


In message <20050902053927.3656b245 at localhost>, Tom Rhodes writes:


>My question is, and I know this hasn't been tested so be my
>guest and theorize a bit.  Are there any performance gains
>or losses as a result of taking this route?

If we are concerned about the performance of /dev/console, we
need our collective heads and tails smacked until we come to
our senses :-)

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