From: =?unknown-8bit?q?R=C3=A9mi?= Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
To: ofono@ofono.org
Subject: Re: ppp
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:30:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528e30da2dd595aafc78a57a7dfafb0e@chewa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911121237.30698.denkenz@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:37:30 -0600, Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Unfortunately it is not that simple. pppd requires a proper kernel file
> descriptor to hand off to the kernel ppp line discipline. In our
> userspace implementation that is not the case. 1 kernel file descriptor
> is shared by potentially many GAtChat channels using a multiplexing
> protocol.
You _could_ create a PTS/PTY pair though...
> Hence why we can't reuse the kernel implementation.
...But I am not sure if the PPP line discipline works correctly on top of
/dev/pts.
--
Rémi Denis-Courmont
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 13:58 ppp Ryan Raasch
2009-11-12 18:37 ` ppp Denis Kenzior
2009-11-12 18:42 ` ppp Ryan Raasch
2009-11-12 19:39 ` ppp Chris Pitchford
2009-11-13 11:31 ` ppp =?unknown-8bit?q?R=C3=A9mi?= Denis-Courmont
2009-11-13 11:53 ` ppp Chris Pitchford
2009-11-14 18:50 ` ppp Andrzej Zaborowski
2009-11-14 19:26 ` ppp Chris Pitchford
2009-11-15 9:09 ` ppp =?unknown-8bit?q?R=C3=A9mi?= Denis-Courmont
2009-11-13 12:02 ` ppp Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-13 12:13 ` ppp Chris Pitchford
2009-11-13 12:23 ` ppp Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-13 11:30 ` =?unknown-8bit?q?R=C3=A9mi?= Denis-Courmont [this message]
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