[BRLTTY] BRLTTY Implicated In Resource Exhaustion

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

On 9 May 2011, at 23:44, Jason White wrote:
Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail at sabahattin-gucukoglu.com> wrote:
>>> I don't have any other suggestions, but there are experts on the list and you
>>> may need to take it up with Debian or the kernel community.
>> 
>> Yes indeed.  On that note, does anybody know of a successful, clean port of brltty to non-Linux, non-Windows systems?  Linux is starting to really fail me of late. :-(
> 
> You can run it under BSD, Solaris etc., using a patched version of GNU Screen.
> 
> Those systems don't have virtual consoles, as far as I know. Linux is much
> better from an accessibility standpoint.

They have virtual consoles.  They just don't have the vcs* devices brltty normally uses to get special information from the consoles (attributes etc), in addition to the relevant ioctls.  IIRC there was one effort to get this working under FreeBSD but nothing seems to have come of that.  I guess it's easier to stick with the devil you know, for lack of time.  Hopefully the need will see something happen in future.
> 
> Since nobody else appears to be experiencing your problem, I'd suggest it is
> specific to your hardware or system configuration, and your best option is to
> report it either to Debian or to the kernel developers if you're sure that
> it's kernel-related.

I'm not sure.  I'll give it a bit longer to manifest itself under various conditions, and take it from there.

Cheers,
Sabahattin