Whereas this works as expected:
root@LIM:~# socat -d -d pty pty
2017/10/15 01:01:49 socat[91] N PTY is /dev/pts/0
2017/10/15 01:01:49 socat[91] N PTY is /dev/pts/1
2017/10/15 01:01:49 socat[91] N starting data transfer loop with FDs [5,5] and [7,7]
Including any argument at all causes socat to fail:
root@LIM:~# socat -d -d pty,echo=0 pty
2017/10/15 01:04:56 socat[92] N PTY is /dev/pts/0
2017/10/15 01:04:56 socat[92] E tcsetattr(5, TCSADRAIN, 0x7fffdafe8be0): Invalid argument
2017/10/15 01:04:56 socat[92] N exit(1)
I'm following this SO advice, this tutorial, and this blog and ultimately want to run a command that may resemble socat -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyS0,raw,echo=0 pty,link=/dev/ttyS1,raw,echo=0 to establish a pair of virtual serial ports for COM1 and COM2.
I am using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows:
root@LIM:~# socat -V
socat by Gerhard Rieger - see www.dest-unreach.org
socat version 1.7.3.1 on Feb 2 2016 21:25:06
running on Linux version #1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014, release 4.4.0-43-Microsoft, machine x86_64
features:
#not shown for brevity
root@LIM:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
C:\Users\Aaron Borns>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
What is wrong with the command to cause the Invalid argument error? Thank you for your help!