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Date:	Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:26:21 +0200
From:	Robrecht Dewaele <rdewaele AT vub DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject:	Re: unable to set icrnl (stty -F /dev/ttyS2 icrnl) for an ftdi device
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:17:48AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>   
>> On Apr  4 01:55, Robrecht Dewaele wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm using cygwin 1.7.2 on Windows 7, and I am unable to set the icrnl flag for /dev/ttyS2 as shown at the bottom of my message. The device attached to ttyS2 is a ARM development board which uses an ftdi chip for serial communication over USB.
>>>       
>> These settings are not supported on the serial line.  Basic I/O is
>> supported, but no cooked mode.  Maybe we can derive the fhandler_serial
>> class from fhandler_termios instead of from fhandler_base at one point,
>> but none of the core developers really need and use serial I/O so our
>> incentive to change that is very low.
>>     
>
> It was always my intention to do that when I first implemented
> fhandler_termios but testing the serial stuff is such a pain that I
> haven't gotten around to it in the last ten years.  :-)
>
>   
Thank you all kindly for the information.
I'm afraid I currently have the competences nor the time to write a 
patch to add this feature, and I understand this is not a high priority 
issue, so I'll manually work around this limitation for the cygwin build 
of my software for now.

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