Re: "Do you want to go.. FASTER?!"

[dsb@cs.duke.edu]

Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de> writes:
># set speed...
>/usr/local/bin/tspeed 115200 </dev/serial2
[...]
> and this is tspeed:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <ioctl.h>
>
>int main (argc, argv)
>        int argc;
>        char **argv;
>{
>        long bps = -1;
>        volatile long ibps, obps;
>        if (argc > 1)
>                bps = atol(argv[1]);
>        ibps = obps = bps;
>        ioctl (0, TIOCIBAUD, &ibps);
>#if 0
>        printf ("old/lower ispeed %ld ", ibps);
>#endif
>        ioctl (0, TIOCOBAUD, &obps);
>#if 0
>        printf ("old/lower ospeed %ld\n", obps);
>#endif
>        return 0;
>}

This seems to be the key:  passing the actual baud value to the
appropriate system call instead of one of the B38400 family #define'd in
/usr/include/{ioctl,termios}.h.  In fact, if this is the case, we could
presumably add lines like "#define B115200 115200" to those headers.

>       [...] and if you wonder how the TIOC?BAUD `magically' work
>above 38400 have a look at the mint kernel source.)

Yeah. Right. :-O  I managed to trace it from tcsetattr() as far as the
TIOC?BAUD Fcntl()'s, and then got lost.  But if that works, I think I
know where in the pppd source to start poking...  Thanks.

						-sbigham