Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:32:19 +0200 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled |
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David Laight, le jeu. 29 juin 2023 13:23:54 +0000, a ecrit: > From: Samuel Thibault > > Sent: 28 June 2023 07:07 > ... > > > So is there really no solution for brltty and TIOCSTI being disabled? > > > > No, there is no way to simulate characters on the Linux console. The > > alternative would be to use uinput, but that simulates keycodes, not > > characters, thus requiring backtranslating first, which is very fragile. > > It could probably be rewritten to use a pseudo-tty pair.
That's what yasr does for instance, but that does not make the login prompt accessible, which is a must (just like sighted users don't log in blindly...)
Samuel
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