On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:43:43AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > FWIW, you can find such functionality in the Perle trueport driver for > > their Jetstream ethernet serial ports. See > > http://www.perle.com/downloads/trueport.shtml . > > They are hacking up the pty layer in a way that is not very "nice" :( Well, it's basically a copy of the legacy BSD pty layer with some extra code for the Trueport to support the real hardware related ioctls (set speed, etc). The ethernet stuff (or rather: TCP/IP stuff) is handled in userspace, which is nice. If you would extend the current Unix98 ptys with such hardware related functionality, you could handle all ethernet terminal servers in userland. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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