ppp

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:37:30 -0600, Denis Kenzior <denkenz at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Unfortunately it is not that simple.  pppd requires a proper kernel file
> descriptor to hand off to the kernel ppp line discipline.  In our
> userspace implementation that is not the case.  1 kernel file descriptor
> is shared by potentially many GAtChat channels using a multiplexing
> protocol. 

You _could_ create a PTS/PTY pair though...

> Hence why we can't reuse the kernel implementation.

...But I am not sure if the PPP line discipline works correctly on top of
/dev/pts.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont