In article <linux.kernel.200004042126.e34LQMW28770@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>,
Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>Alexander Viro writes:
>> echo 57600,8,n,1 > /dev/serial/ttyS0ctl should work.
>Well, time to throw back one of the old anti-devfs arguments:
>bloat. Parsing ASCII is a lot harder than dereferencing structure
>fields.
But it's a easier to maintain compatability (assuming, of course,
that you want to maintain compatability; if compatability isn't on
your mind when you code, ascii is just as unmaintainable as binary
data) when you're picking apart human-readable fields.
____
david parsons \bi/ SNMP would be an example of this if the people
\/ writing about it would put away their Captain
Midnight Secret Decoder Rings before putting pen
to paper.
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