[syslinux] tftp-hpa enhancement

[Mickey Malone]

The existing code does not support it from my initial tests. It just saves the output off to a file called "-".

I will look into this. Keeping that convention is cleaner.

How do you feel about moving all error/info output to stderr? 

This will leave stdout clean, which is needed if the data is being streamed to stdout or else it will get dirty.

--
Mickey

On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:53 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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
>