The question of emulating a serial port in user-space has come up a number of times in various contexts during the past few years. The current pty driver isn't really sufficient when the application actually expects to be connected to a physical serial port: you can't set parity or word length, and the modem control/status ioctl() calls fail. That means that many applications just won't run when told to use a pty instead of a normal serial port. If one were to enhance the pty driver to support the same operations as a serial port, would the "powers that be" be amenable to accepting such changes into the main pty driver sources? Or is this even the right place to discuss the pty driver? -- Grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
