linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

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Message-ID: <48B72F53.9080109@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:55 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

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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