Re: [ gpsdrive ] removing direct serial support?

[Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@elementarea.net>]

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:33 +0100, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive
Munich/Germany) wrote:
> ...
> 
> > one other thing comes to my mind, joerg:
> > as almost all gps-receivers should work more or less with gpsd, is the
> > built in serial support in gpsdrive still needed, or could it be removed?
i say remove it.. but what if we made a fake gpsd with this serial-code,
that way people for whom this is working but not gpsd could fire up this
one instead of gpsd. not really clean but should work, and it's out of
the gpsdrive core.

> 
> I would remove it, but as i recall it was a question of complexity for the 
> embedded users to start two processes. Maybe we could solve this by giving 
> them them the possibility to start gpsd from inside gpsdrive automatically if 
> it's not already started.
possible, but gpsd is in /usr/sbin - thought to be started as root, it
will drop privileges by itself. still better to try running it as
non-root, and notify if it can't connect to a gps than leaving a rookie
with a gpsdrive without gpsd at all.

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