TERM(4) TERM(4)
Name
term - Terminal boxes.
Synopsis
/b/term
Description
The box /b/term is used to contain boxes that represent text
I/O boxes, also termed terminals. On hosted implementations,
they represent terminal deviceswhatever that may be for the
host environment.
Other implementations may correspond to short text messages
in GSM, keyboards attached to the network, and other text
I/O devices.
The box owner may create new boxes into /b/term on hosted
environments to allocate new terminal devices.
The implementation for computer terminals collects charac-
ters from the device until a newline is typed. A copy from
such box would return a line at a time. Some characters are
special: The backspace character erases previous characters,
the delete key raises an interrupt error to the process
copying from the terminal, and the control-D key causes an
end of file (zero bytes copied).
Announces
/b/term as /term
Source
/src/b/*/termbox.c
Bugs
Lines and interrupts should be collected by using inner
boxes.
The delete key can be stored and interrupt a later copier on
certain scenarios. The fix would require the use of a ker-
nel process to collect terminal characters asynchronously.