and here's the man/texinfo patch On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:59 PM david kerns <david.t.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.nore...@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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> >> Reply to this item at: >> >> <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23952> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Message sent via Savannah >> https://savannah.gnu.org/ >> >> >>
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