Blaz Antonic writes:
>
> Now that i've finally got that lp driver to print on my inkspitter (= it
> should work 100% on other parallel printers too) it's time to write some
> userland tools. Since select(2) is said to be woring now i'd like to
> know if anyone is interested in writing any of the tools mentioned in
> subject ??? Or maybe help someone else (hint, hint, me) writing them ???
> We already had lpd: deamon or no deamon discussion once but i think that
> grabbing one process slot won't do _that_ much harm ?!?
>
> And since serial is kinda working too some sort of terminal program
> using select (= instead of using two precious process slots, thanks
> Jacek :-))) would be nice too. This one is actually easier than any of
> the printer tools - dumb terminal emulator is nothing more than sitting
> on select() waiting for ttySx descriptor to change status and then
> display the relevant information. Console will take care of
> VT52/some-ANSI emulation.
>
> Some sort of setserial would also be nice, this would help debugging
> arch/i86/drivers/char/serial.c code. Jacek Lipkowski was woring on that
> while ago but then dissapeared or something.
>
> If anyone is interested in (writing some code, not babbling about) any
> of those things please let me know so we won't reproduce each other's
> work.
>
Two of the things I am working on at the moment are:-
1 True termios support including setting baud rates and other low level
serial stuff. setserial would then be a wrapper around a termios call.
2 Interrupt signals on the console, which are not that closely related to
the above, but related to the console/serial code generally.
Al
