[syslinux] tftp-hpa enhancement

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jan 27 09:53:14 PST 2012


On 01/27/2012 07:47 AM,  Mickey J. Malone wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a need to enhance the tftp client to redirect the data to stdout.
> The enhancement will include a command line switch and adjusting the
> client code to be quiet and write to stdout instead of a file (currently
> default)
> 
> The only other alternative is using curl, but the curl tftp subroutine
> does not do proper error checking and skips over blocks of data when an
> error occurs (we are talking udp, so this can happen more often the
> larger the tftp data stream is).
> 
> I would like to give something back so once I make this change, where
> can I push the changes to?
> 

Posting patches (or pull requests) to this mailing list works well.

Typically in Unix this is done by specifying a single dash (-) as the
output file name, it would be good to keep that convention.

	-hpa




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