Re: [Nettle-users] DeviceFS support for !Nettle

[Alex M. S. <no...@ar...>]

On 01/04/2010 22:31, James Peacock wrote:
> Is anyone here?
>
> I've made a small addition to !Nettle, adding support for talking to
> DeviceFS devices (e.g. serial ports). The changes are of prototype
> quality and not very user friendly to those not familiar with
> fileswitch special fields... But might be useful.
>
>    http://effarig.co.uk/riscos/download/nettle.zip
>
> Is there anyone still maintaining Nettle? If so would something as
> prototyped above be a suitable addition? I also have a few questions
> regarding how newlines are meant to work and what the plans were for
> the beginnings of SSH support in the code.
>
> James Peacock
>
Might be more useful to provide a patch rather than a zip of all the 
source - harder to see what changes have been made :)

Not sure about using DeviceFS - wonder whether it might be better to use 
the serial blockdrivers instead, although not sure how well they fit 
into a C application.

SSH never really got going - I created an SSH module based on PuTTY a 
few years back, and put some random hooks into Nettle to use that, but 
PuTTY wasn't well suited to running as a module really (it did work to 
an extent though).

Someone suggested using http://www.libssh.org/ instead, but I never got 
up the motivation to actually try integrating it.

Alex.