Re: cat, cp operations for tty driver (like for char one)

[linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Mockern wrote:

> Thanx for your respond.
>
> Does it mean I have to change nothing in my tty driver
> (based on serial_core.c) to use: cat and cp? No "nonstandard " special 
> functions to implement?
>

Change nothing. It you are making your own, make sure your iocl() function
returns the same kinds of errors as the in-kernel one.

You can check out the existing in-kernel driver as:

strace cp filename /dev/ttyS0



>
>
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Mockern wrote:
>>
>>> I have a question about linux tty driver
>>>
>>> how to support cp, cat operations in tty driver (like tiny_tty)?
>>> (e.g. echo "hello tty" > /dev/ttyS3, cat < ttyS10 etc)
>>>
>>> There a lot of examples with char drivers, but I could not find it for tty Linux driver.
>>>
>>
>> It works out of the box. Just keep hardware flow-control turned off
>> if there are no receivers connected to the output port. Also, you need
>> to set up the port's baud-rate and (usually) to make it transparent to
>> control characters (man tc-get/set-attr).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dick Johnson
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>> Thank you.
>
>

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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