From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30374 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2005 20:04:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 30367 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Nov 2005 20:04:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.204) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:04:32 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l1so1147655nzf for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:04:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.71.15 with SMTP id t15mr4261499nza; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:04:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.35 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:04:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0511221204w56004cb2t753b9eda76e572b9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:15:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: shared serial port in GDB In-Reply-To: <20051122142215.GA16039@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051122142215.GA16039@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00500.txt.bz2 Veering off-topic: when I deal with the remote protocol, I often wonder how small one could get a PPP implementation. The remote protocol's half-hearted gestures at layering, control character transparency, and so on just seem kind of dumb. One wouldn't need to implement all the little PPP sub-protocols. But it would be cool to actually talk to a stub over TCP, and be able to assume a reliable connection.