Re: Insanely high baud rates

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On October 11, 2018 5:31:34 AM PDT, Alan Cox <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm mostly wondering if it is worth future-proofing for new
>transports. It sounds like we can have a consensus on leaving the upper
>4 bits of the speed fields reserved, but leave the details of
>implementation for the future?
>
>It seems reasonable, although I think the reality is that any future
>transport is not going to be a true serial link, but some kind of
>serial
>emulation layer. For those the speed really only matters to tell
>editors
>and the like not to bother being clever.
>
>I mean - what is the baud rate of a pty  ?
>
>Alan

Whatever the master wants it to be...
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