Re: Insanely high baud rates

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 17:41:05 EST


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 07:14:30AM -0700, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >I mean - what is the baud rate of a pty ?
>
> Whatever the master wants it to be...

I think Alan's point is that it is highly unlikely you would be able
to push the equivalent of 4 gbps through a PTY layer. The TTY later
was never engineered for those speeds, and the real question is ---
what's the point? That's what Ethernet is for.

- Ted