Re: to beep or not to beep...
Tom Dyas (tdyas@hardees.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 9 Jan 97 1:14:51 EST
> I know that's bash's part not to beep on errors but I think that would be
> useful to implement an ioctl (or something, I don't know the kernel's
> internals) to allow a user program to control whether the programs can
> beep or not. I've looked at the termcap file too, but all I've found was
> the choice between visual or audible bell. I couldn't find out how to tell
> the system that I don't want either.
If you don't mind coding a quick hack, you could modify the beep
routine _kd_mksound in drivers/char/vt.c to have a conditional keyed
on an integer variable and then stuff that integer variable into a
sysctl entry in kernel/sysctl.c so that you could just use the
/proc/sys interface to turn beeping on and off. Of course, they may be
an ioctl but beats me ...
Tom