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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: 49524@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49524: 28.0.50; make-serial-process is not portable
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:24:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82e72be1-9907-c08f-0c1d-d625e914a902@cornell.edu> (raw)

Fmake_serial_process calls Fserial_process_configure, which calls 
serial_configure, which calls cfsetspeed with the speed argument equal to the 
numerical baud rate (e.g., 9600).  But the documentation of cfsetspeed says that 
the speed argument must be one of the Bnnn constants defined in termios.h (e.g., 
B9600).  See, for example,

   https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/termios.3.html

This incorrect call of cfsetspeed happens to succeed on GNU/Linux because 
glibc's cfsetspeed allows the argument to be the numerical baud rate, which it 
converts to the appropriate Bnnn constant.  But I don't think emacs should be 
relying on this undocumented behavior.  In particular, this doesn't work on 
Cygwin.  And it wouldn't even work on GNU/Linux if emacs used the cfsetspeed 
replacement defined in sysdep.c instead of glibc's cfsetspeed.

I think the way to fix this is to imitate the glibc code that converts the baud 
rate to a Bnnn constant, but maybe someone has a better idea.

By the way, I came across this issue while investigating the failure of 
process-tests/fd-setsize-no-crash/make-serial-process on Cygwin.








             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-11 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-11 15:24 Ken Brown [this message]
2021-07-11 16:24 ` bug#49524: 28.0.50; make-serial-process is not portable Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-12 13:27   ` Ken Brown
2021-07-12 21:35     ` Ken Brown
2021-07-13 11:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-13 13:11         ` Ken Brown

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