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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