4.9.0 with shell via telnetd

[Tim Cussins]

On Monday 29 September 2008 04:21:26 Gene Smith wrote:
> The shell with telnetd in 4.8 works find. Just have to intialize telnetd
> in Init() and it goes.
>
> However, with 4.9 the new improved shell has a documentation hole
> regarding telnet. The shell manual says it easy to attach the shell to a
> serial port or telnetd. However, how to do it with telnetd (a socket)
> says TBD.
>
> Can someone list the steps needed to get telnetd running with the shell
> in 4.9.0 ?

Hey Gene

I worked through this just recently - may not be the ideal way though :D

rtems shell uses stdin & stdout, so the initialisation function takes a couple 
of relevant params. You'll need to create a pseudo terminal to pass into the 
init function.

I used cpkit/telnetd/pty.{c,h} to create a pseudo-terminal:

int acceptedSocket = accept(...);
char *deviceName = telnet_get_pty( acceptedSocket );

deviceName will be "/dev/pty0" or similar.

If you can figure out how to link to libtelnetd - let me know! I worked around 
it by compiling pty.c as part of my application code. Nasty.

cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c  needed a couple of tweaks to deal with this, and 
the fact that the rtems shell line editor wants input key-by-key - AFAIK 
telnet is line based, with local echo, which play merry havoc :( I've attached 
a small patch to show what I changed. Again, nasty.

Quick plug for netcat vs telnet. If your device doesn't speak telnet special 
commands etc, netcat could be a better option, in that it doesn't translate 
codes behind your back. Check it out.

HTH,
Tim

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