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Useful for network serial ports

Useful for network serial ports

Posted Dec 2, 2008 21:14 UTC (Tue) by astrand (guest, #4908)
Parent article: Character devices in user space

With this mechanism, it would be much easier to support network redirected serial ports. Currently, cyclades-serial-client uses LD_PRELOAD, which is far from optimal.

/Maintainer of cyclades-serial-client and sercd


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