[ECOS] Limitations of the actual ECOS release

["Huber, Matthias 6667 SFA-31" <Matthias dot Huber at de dot heidelberg dot com>]

Hello,

I am porting ecos on a self-developed i386 board. It works fine so far!
Actually I am trying to port a telnet server from the gnu inet-utils to
ecos. With doing so, I am facing several limitations of the actual ecos
implementation:
- serial I/O only available as streams, no file I/O on, say, "/dev/tty1"
possible
- no PTY's available (so I wrote my own serial pipe device)
- no non-blocking I/O available in ecos-1.3.1 (now I use the developer
version on anonymous CVS :-)
- freopen not implemented (for switching of stdout/in; wrote my own freopen)
- select only available through net package, therefore it works ONLY with
sockets (what about providing file handling functions for serial I/O as
well?)

So my questions are:
- Will these features ever be available?
- If so, when? Is someone implementing already?
- How about integrating the additional kernel functions from the net package
into the main tree?
- Does there a development schedule (or a todo-list) exist of the
functionality that will be implemented next in ecos? What is planed for the
next release(s)?

Thank You very much so far for the great work,
Matthias Huber

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