I am trying to link a virtual PTY with a remote device which accepts TCP connections on port 23. The opening and closing of the socket on the target device is a significant event and part of the operation of the device.
I am currently trying to use socat to do the job, with:
socat pty,link=/dev/ttyACM99,raw tcp:192.168.0.15:23 It works, in that I can open /dev/ttyACM99 and read/write data to the device - however as soon as the socat command is run the TCP port is opened, and it only closes when socat is terminated.
What I need is that the TCP port doesn't open until some other software (it matters not what) opens /dev/ttyACM99. When /dev/ttyACM99 is closed the TCP connection should then disconnect.
I can't find anything in the socat manual pages or from googling (though it's quite a tricky thing to google for) that says this is even possible with socat, and I really don't want to have to go to the hassle of writing my own piping program (though I could if I really need to).
Update:
I found the wait-slave parameter to the PTY pipe which does what I want - however it now terminates socat on closing of the PTY which is far from ideal.
socat pty,link=/dev/ttyACM99,raw,wait-slave tcp:192.168.0.15:23 Is there an option like wait-slave or that can go with wait-slave that will just close the target socket instead of closing the whole program? At the moment I am running it in a while 'true' which seems to work for now, but isn't ideal.
