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From: "Holy Aavu" <holyaavu@gmail.com>
To: mikado4vn@gmail.com
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual Serial Port
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:55:22 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd7767e40603270325g71d39837if3bca8a05be39ace@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442582B8.8040403@gmail.com>

On 3/25/06, Mikado <mikado4vn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My machine has only one serial port. Now I want to add more *software*
> (virtual) serial ports. I also want to make a virtual serial cable
> between a real serial port and a virtual one OR between virtual ports.
> Is there any way to solve that problem in our universe?

I have a doubt... I am not sure if you can have a full working
solution to make all programs run using the virtual serial ports.
Because, there *might* be some programs which actually use the 'in'
and 'out' instructions of the processor directly from a user space
program. (After calling iopl/ioperm etc to elevate their I/O
privileges to directly use the IO ports) I dont think even a kernel
change can help in that case...

Is my understanding correct or am I missing something?

>
> Thanks,
> Mikado.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-27 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-25 17:49 Virtual Serial Port Mikado
2006-03-25 18:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-26  2:23   ` Mikado
2006-03-26  3:27     ` Anderson Lizardo
2006-03-26  9:31     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-26 17:09       ` Mikado
2006-03-26 18:52         ` Petr Vandrovec
2006-03-27  3:29           ` Mikado
2006-03-26 16:07 ` Glynn Clements
2006-03-27 11:25 ` Holy Aavu [this message]
2006-03-27 17:29   ` Glynn Clements
2006-03-28  5:53     ` Holy Aavu

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