[FOSS-GPS] Can rtkrcv create a pseudo-terminal?

[Fred Labrosse]

Ho Scott,

Interesting suggestion.  No I haven't.  I'll look into that.

Fred


On Saturday 07 November 2015 17:20:56 Scott Harrison wrote:
> Have you looked into using named pipes?
> 
> On Nov 6, 2015 11:56 AM, "Fred Labrosse" <ffl at aber.ac.uk> wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > SO far I have used socat to create a pair of linked pseudo terminals,
> > one used by rtkrcv to output the solution into, the other to be used
> > by my favourite NMEA consumers as a "normal" serial device.
> > 
> > For a number of reasons I would like to move away from socat, so I was
> > reading about /dev/ptmx.  And this made me think that actually this is
> > something that rtkrcv should handle, as the holder of the master of the
> > created slave pseudo terminal.
> > 
> > Any one knows if rtkrcv can do that?  If not, if I modify rtkrcv so
> > that it does it, would the authors be interested in the code to
> > include that in the package?  I can't do it for windows though.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
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