der Mouse wrote:
That has
nothing at all to do with the kernel; it's in the terminal
driver.
Huh? Isn't the terminal driver part of the kernel?
Depends on heritage. Since SysV it's more often it's a streams module
which certainly can (but does not have to ) execute in kernel space; for
those that do the analogy is closer to a loadable device driver than
part of the kernel proper.
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