Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

[H. Peter Anvin]

Greg KH wrote:
> Independant of that, I can see a number of uses for the CUSE code.  One
> would be emulating /dev/pilot for old palm pilot software that things it
> wants to talk to a serial port, yet really a libusb userspace program
> can handle all of the data to the USB device instead.

I think that's probably another bad example... I would think serial port 
emulation would be better handled by ptys, and/or a specific serial port 
emulation module.

The big problem with using ptys for serial port emulation is that they 
currently don't handle BREAK at all.

	-hpa
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