Hi all:

Disclaimer:
  I'm new here, sorry if I doing something wrong.

What I'm looking for:
  I'm looking for comments and approval for a small addition to the console
driver (drivers/char/console.c).

Small description:
  The attached patches adds a couple of new services to the TIOCLINUX ioctl
call, they are:

13 (get selection into a buffer): It copies the contents of the selection
buffer (maintained in kernel space) into a user space provided buffer. Is
something like "paste to a buffer"  instead of just paste to the current
console.

14 (get selection length): Returns the length of the selection buffer (0 if
none selected).
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The attached file (patch.diff) contains diffs that apply without offsets
into 2.4.7 kernel, they are valid for 2.2.18 too (with offset).
I also attached a simple test. It is in spanish but the code is quite
obvious.

Additional question: Why the switch uses numbers? Shouldn't these values be
defined as something like TIOCLINUX_GET_SELECTION in a header?

What's the purpose? Just allow pasting in text editors using menues or
without the mouse middle button.

SET

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