"Pennell, David" wrote:

> There are RFC's that define Telnet extensions that allow you to
> change the speed on the remote port, send breaks, manipulate
> modem control, etc.  With the appropriate support on the other
> end, you can open a connection from your machine to a physical
> port on another machine and perform the same operations on the
> remote serial port as you can (mostly) with ioctl().  I'm not
> saying to not use ioctl(), just that it would be nice to not
> preclude adding other mechanisms in the future.  I don't have
> any pressing needs, so I wouldn't let it slow me down.

Ah. I think that such support (additions to Telnet) would be at
a higher level. They don't (AFAIK) exist in Linux, at least not
at the device level.

So if I implement everything that's needed by the implementation
of those Telnet RFC's (which includes all that line control,
break, etc. stuff), then someone else can do the Telnet stuff.

How's that?

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