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Subject:	Re: unable to set icrnl (stty -F /dev/ttyS2 icrnl) for an ftdi device
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:17:48AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr  4 01:55, Robrecht Dewaele wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I'm using cygwin 1.7.2 on Windows 7, and I am unable to set the icrnl flag for /dev/ttyS2 as shown at the bottom of my message. The device attached to ttyS2 is a ARM development board which uses an ftdi chip for serial communication over USB.
>
>These settings are not supported on the serial line.  Basic I/O is
>supported, but no cooked mode.  Maybe we can derive the fhandler_serial
>class from fhandler_termios instead of from fhandler_base at one point,
>but none of the core developers really need and use serial I/O so our
>incentive to change that is very low.

It was always my intention to do that when I first implemented
fhandler_termios but testing the serial stuff is such a pain that I
haven't gotten around to it in the last ten years.  :-)

cgf

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