[ILUG] serial port like entity...

[Dave Airlie]

> The restrictions are no changes to the minicom applications, they must be
> able to open the file for read+write as they are doing now, just like a
> serial port.... so this means no UNIX socket code, Internet socket code,
> the apps are not to be changed..
> 
> Has anyone heard of anything like this, available or in kernel, I know I
> could code it but time is tight as ever...
> 
Well I got home last night and after about 5-10 mins wondering and looking
in /dev, I remembered good old pty/tty pairs, these do exactly what I
want, and no need to change anything in the apps, so I now have mgetty and
minicom working with user space serial transport... woohoo :-)... gotta
love Linux, I'd hate to think how long that could take under W2k or
below..

Dave

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