no problem. Do what you need to get it in.
Hi David,
I can confirm that this patch seems to work as advertised. Thank you.
It didn't show up in the bug tracker though, are you ok with me
forwarding the patches there?
Greetings
Marc
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:59:22PM -0700, david kerns wrote:
> From: david kerns <david.t.kerns@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [screen-devel] [bug #23952] Screen can't set stop/parity bits
> on serial
> To: Screen development <screen-devel@gnu.org>
> Cc: Micah Cowan <micah@addictivecode.org>, Marc Haber
> <mh+savannah-gnu-org@zugschlus.de>, Benedikt Wildenhain
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> Here's a quick and dirty patch for 4.8.0 ... I didn't investigate if the
> BSD side allows those settings (it's BSD, screw'em)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 7:54 AM Marc Haber <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #23952 (project screen):
> >
> > This has been lying around in the bug tracker for 13 years now. I'd like to
> > elaborate a bit on this:
> >
> > The cereal program (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cereal) uses screen as
> > a
> > terminal emulator to access serial devices such as routers, switches etc.
> > cereal's unique usage of screens allow device output to be captured
> > unattendedly, so that you can see the device's last output when attaching
> > to
> > the session. This is a huge help when debugging on devices that usually run
> > unattended for months and then suddenly need attention.
> >
> > Unfortunately, screen's handling of serial ports is somewhat incomplete:
> > You
> > can set the baud rate and the word length (cs7), but not the number of stop
> > bits and/or the parity settings.
> >
> > Since the OS calls are readily available, adding this to a future version
> > of
> > screen would proably be easy enough to do inside tty.sh. Sadly, my C skills
> > lack to handle this code which is liberally sprinkled with portability
> > #ifdefs, so I cannot submit a patch.
> >
> >
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> >
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