New (GNU) kernels--what I think

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <2514 at gandalf.UUCP> by ml at gandalf.UUCP (Marcus Leech):
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| > No, they should pull the next or previous lines from a circular buffer in
| > the driver. If you're going to duplicate the history mechanism in all
| 
| No.  History buffers of a user-selectable arbitrary size don't belong in
|   the kernel, which I why I suggested the callback-like interrupt mechanism.
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Streams, folks -- Streams with the capability to push *user-mode* modules
would be best.  Then any user can push his/her own module.  I discussed this
with der Mouse in this newsgroup some time back; if there be archives, look
them up.

++Brandon
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