Speakup in user space, why or why not?

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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According to Janina Sajka:
# 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.

Brltty does it.  And I don't think it's just because it uses a braille display.
Somehow, it always has access to the currently open console in userspace.

# 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.

I'm not sure about kernel panics, but brltty does this too from userspace.
While I had my braille display, if I had any trouble with an app, I could always
switch to another console to fix or kill it if necessary.

Lorenzo
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