Speakup in user space, why or why not?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

I have brltty in all consoles also.  It starts up with an init script
before login, so there is only one process running.

          Kenny

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:23:54PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Well, I would expect the canonical answer to come from Kirk himself, but
> I would expect it's more than just the boot up messages. There's also
> the issue of ubiquitous availability, and persistence.
> 
> In other words, you get Speakup across any and all consoles that you
> might open. In my case that's 24 consoles (or 23 on the machines where I
> also have a GUI Desktop). Try that from user space. I don't think it
> could be done.
> 
> Then there's persistence--meaning that your access continues to function
> in the face of whatever might happen to an application you're running.
> Not only kernel panics will talk, but any application gone awry can
> often, nay usually, be brought under control from a second console.
> 
> Sina Bahram writes:
> > Hi Janina,
> > 
> > The point is one of personal curiocity, questions about software
> > engineering, and just general interest in why.
> > 
> > I really would like to know if something like this is possible, and if the
> > only reason for having it in the kernel is for boot messages.
> 
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