Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:32:57 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE |
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> serial ports as ptys+userspace a much more capable replacement. It's > not trivial, though, because the interpretation of the BREAK has to be > done when received, not when sent, which means supporting a 257th value > in the underlying buffer setup.
That bit of the problem is trivial. Its the rest of the behavioural differences that are more of a nightmare - parity, flow control differences, modem line emulation, being able to hook into things like ldisc change/termios change.
Break is about a half hour job.
Alan
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