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Re: Virtual Serial Device Thingy.





Danny Paikov wrote:

> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Danny - it goes without saying that you either own both machines in question,
> > or have explicit permission from the owner of the machine to which the modem
> > is connected to do what you are asking here. I want it made clear that I,
> > personally, will not give my help to any form of illegal cracking activity of
> > any kind.
>
> Are you serious?
> (a) I swear, officer, this has nothing to do with cracking.

I just wanted to make my point clear. I am not saying you were trying to crack. Call
that a "license agreement" on the information given here, that that information will
not be used illegally (and like all license agreement, this is pointless, because it
is illegal to use this information illegally, regardless of what we agree upon).

>
> (b) The NFS solutions doesn't look very promising, also the remote
> machine
> isn't necessarily running Unix of any kind, which is also a factor.
>

Yes, it is.

I also reconsidered my named pipe solution, as a named pipe is half duplex, and you
want a full duplex connection. What I would suggest is that you write a small Unix
side program, utilizing UNIX_DOMAIN sockets (sockets that are referenced as a Unix
file, as opposed to the standard sockets, that are referenced like a file
descriptor).

setty problems will not be solved by this, but the duplex problem will probably be
solved.

I have never worked with UNIX_DOMAIN sockets, so I cannot tell you exactly how to do
this, or whether it will actually work. Is anybody else on the list knowledgable in
this area?

                Shachar



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