Re: console stuff (was: Re: argp limitation

[Roland McGrath]

> An alternative strategy (for the dynamic case) is to have the client
> hand a port for the file to the console server, which can then read
> from it exactly as if it were a file (which it normally will be).

Yeah, maybe.  But that is certainly more of a burden on the server to stay
robust that just handing it the data directly.

> In the passive translator case, it's perfectly fine for it to read
> from the filesystem, right?

Sure, once at startup.