>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: A better userspace solution would be great. I'm maintaining cyclades-serial-client. It relies on LD_PRELOAD, which is not very elegant. >you can't set parity or word length, and the modem >control/status ioctl() calls fail. Oh. I was just investigating why it's not possible to set "cs7" on the pty. stty fails with: $ stty cs7 -F /my/pty stty: /my/pty: unable to perform all requested operations I guess this explains it. Best regards, --- Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio AB http://www.cendio.se Wallenbergs gata 4 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 --- Open Source Developers wanted - http://www.cendio.com/about-cendio/career
