[BRLTTY] Linux console hacking (was: Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2026/04/08 at 10:50 -0400]

>You still need some intrusive hooks deep inside the emulator core to 
>intercept data flows. That's unavoidable if you want to have an 
>efficient system that is not constantly polling memory content for 
>changes. That can't be created on demand with a loadable library.

For brltty-pty and the Terminal Emulator screen driver, messge queues <sys/msg.h> is used for notification in both directions.

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