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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-16 19:30:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:27:10 +0100 |
| commit | 28cd86b4c68443b74c7bc117b8949adf8d749f0f (patch) | |
| tree | 479a28110f920a6374a52bdb957abf32482661a0 | |
| parent | c2faa8b7023bc50b4dc57dceea5475a63c69a977 (diff) | |
add translator/streamio page
* hurd/translator.mdwn: add a link
* hurd/translator.mdwn/streamio.mdwn: add a very basic description of
streamio based on some old irc logs.
Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-1-jbranso@dismail.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn | 23 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn index ec5996b0..d025814e 100644 --- a/hurd/translator.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own problems, too: * [[pflocal]] * [[hostmux]] * [[storeio]] +* [[streamio]] * [[ext2fs]] * [[fatfs]] * [[magic]] diff --git a/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn b/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ad40d6d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/streamio.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +<!-- http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/hurd-2010-08-25 --> +<!-- http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/hurd-2009-01-16 --> + +`streamio` is a translator for kernel stream devices, +e.g. the kernel log messages or the parallel port. +It is mainly used for kernel devices, so you will need root +privileges to use it. It provides a basic interface for character +devices. It is low-level and cannot provide device-specific `ioctl`s. +It cannot provide buffering, data format conversions, etc. + |