Re: [coLinux-devel] coSerial driver

[Pat E. <pat...@ma...>]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:45:57 +0300
Vlad Doubrov <vl...@w-...> wrote:

> Pat Erley wrote:
> 
> > I plan on starting a coSerial driver some time tonight.  The driver will work as follows:
> 
>  > a line in config.xml creates a /dev/ttySn, and has a
>  > colinux-serial-daemon that it will call, that will pass to/from
>  > stdin/out on another program.  Examples of such programs could be a
>  > slirp daemon, a serial console daemon, a virtual palm pilot.... really
>  > anything for windows that you could want to communicate with a linux
>  > program.
> 
> Seems to be a very good idea, but it'd be better if it provides a
> virtual COM-port interface at the Windows side. An example of virtual
> COM-port implementation can be found at http://www.ircomm2k.de/ - I used
> to look at it sources and it seems to support only one port, so some
> enhancements are needed.

The virtual comport part would be something that would be a client of this.
 
> Also it would be nice if it supports not only simple data transfer, but
> control signals too (RTS, CTS, DTR, etc...)

hmmm.  ok, I'll keep that in mind.
 
Pat