wconsd

2008-04-23

16:53 Feature #26: list available com ports

I have done some research and this appears to be more difficult than it should be.
* PORT_INFO_2 doesn't provide m... Hamish

2008-04-22

10:34 Feature #23 (Closed): Support "send break" sequence

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10:29 Feature #27: redesign internal command processor to be extensible

Use libcli Hamish

2008-04-21

19:52 Feature #26: list available com ports

Look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535797.aspx
also, this example code: http://www.lookrs232.com/com... Hamish

00:00 Feature #26 (New): list available com ports

it should be possible to request a list of available serial ports, including some current status for each one Hamish

19:16 Bug #30 (Closed): Some clients still cause two lines to be seen by the serial device

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19:12 Bug #30 (Closed): Some clients still cause two lines to be seen by the serial device

It turns out that I was only testing against one client and this was the client that sent CR NUL. Testing against pu... Hamish

19:15 Feature #32 (New): Mangle outbound net data to escape special characters

Currently, no escaping is done on data from serial to net, this could cause confusion when binary data is received fr... Hamish

19:14 Feature #31 (Closed): Implement a raw mode that does not mangle any recieved data

currently, there are three mangles performed on incoming net data - first telnet option processing, then CR NUL to CR... Hamish

18:46 Bug #20 (Closed): cannot return to menu

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18:46 Bug #16 (Closed): Extra line is seen after every enter

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15:34 Bug #19 (Closed): more than one connection causes wierdness

Using the new connection model mostly fixes this problem. Any future issues should be considered a regression Hamish

00:28 Feature #29 (New): Stop wconsd via a network command

Since I expect that this will be very useful for remote support situations, the network command line should allow you... Hamish

00:07 Bug #28 (Closed): automatic help screens

using a extensible command processor, automatically generate context sensitive help Hamish

00:03 Feature #27 (New): redesign internal command processor to be extensible

Move from a big if/strcmp/else list to a register()/find()/exec() interface. This would allow automatically generate... Hamish

2008-04-20

23:58 Feature #25 (Closed): Full featured command line editing

Support for home, end, up, down, ctrl-u, ctrl-w, del, delete. Up and Down should access a command-line history Hamish

23:52 Bug #16: Extra line is seen after every enter

Implementing this will require a cooked data processing mode - thus allowing telnet option processing in serial-data-... Hamish

23:35 Bug #16: Extra line is seen after every enter

This is due to the telnet end of line processing - Telnet specifies that end of line will either be CR LF or CR NUL, ... Hamish

23:37 Bug #19: more than one connection causes wierdness

There is less weirdness here now, but it is still not actually accepting more than one connection. The framework has... Hamish

23:34 Bug #17 (Closed): No telnet option processing is done

Telnet option processing was added in commit:"08ceb73b". This still needs hooking into the serial-data-pump Hamish

23:32 Feature #21: Listen port needs to be configurable

Implemented a console-mode command-line option for this, but not the whole option processing that I was looking for Hamish

23:31 Feature #23: Support "send break" sequence

the telnet option processing framework now exists, but it is not hooked up to anything useful, nor it it reachable fr... Hamish

2008-04-18

18:32 Feature #23 (Closed): Support "send break" sequence

Once we support telnet option processing, it would be good to send a serial break sequence when a telnet send break i... Hamish

18:13 Feature #22 (New): Visible progress indicators displayed on the console

In order to provide feedback and reassure the end user that something is happening, it would be nice to have some fee... Hamish

16:56 Feature #21 (New): Listen port needs to be configurable

Currently, the port that this application will listen on is hard-coded. There should be the ability to configure thi... Hamish

15:55 Bug #18 (Closed): menu interpreter cannot handle receiving CR LF

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15:51 Bug #20 (Closed): cannot return to menu

Once a connection to the serial port is established, there is no method for returning to the original menu Hamish

15:50 Bug #19 (Closed): more than one connection causes wierdness

If the first connection is in the menu and a new connection arrives, it hangs.
If the first connection is talking ... Hamish

2008-04-17

22:47 Bug #18 (Closed): menu interpreter cannot handle receiving CR LF

When using telnet in linemode, the telnet process appears to send both a CR and a LF to the remote system. This is n... Hamish

22:44 Bug #17 (Closed): No telnet option processing is done

Connecting to the server using a standard telnet client results in some garbage as the client attempts option processing Hamish

22:42 Bug #16 (Closed): Extra line is seen after every enter

pressing enter appears to be interpreted by the serial device as two enters. Hamish