freebsd speakup

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Mar 20 13:43:04 EDT 2011


Kyle, le Sun 20 Mar 2011 13:39:20 -0400, a écrit :
> Just my opinion, but in order for YASR to be more usable, it needs to be 
> able to run as a background process similar to brltty. As it stands now, 
> the last version of YASR I tried still ran as a subshell, rendering it 
> nearly unusable except in a single terminal.

The problem is that this way of working is the very nature of YASR. It's
the only way to portably get the output of applications. Else you need
a kernel interface like linux' /dev/vcsa. BSD kernels still don't have
one.

Samuel



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