Bind commandline interface to something different than stdin/stdout

inmbolmie / 5250_usb_converter

Converter to plug an IBM 5251 terminal to a Linux PC via USB emulating a VT52 terminal

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Bind commandline interface to something different than stdin/stdout #3

Open blackbit42 opened 4 years ago

blackbit42 commented 4 years ago

The current behavior prevents the program to be run as a proper daemon, e.g. via a systemd unit. Obvious possibilities are:

An AF_UNIX socket
An AF_INET{,6} socket - probably bound to localhost be default

inmbolmie commented 4 years ago

Wow, maybe over ambitious... but certainly it would be a nice feature, will investigate about doing that. I imagine for this it would also be better to have support for a configuration file to remove the dependency from command line parameters.

blackbit42 commented 4 years ago

Agreed, a config file makes sense then.

blackbit42 commented 3 years ago

I have tinkered together a POC if you will. Can be found in pull request #8.