Data isn't read from a PTY

[kidwm]

https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_event_data

Or how should I get data from serial port with serialport-stream?

[edef1c]

It's a readable stream — it should emit data events just fine if you listen for them…?

[edef1c]

Just checked, data events work fine.

[kidwm]

Thanks for checking, I used socat to test my code:

try {
    fs.accessSync(path, fs.F_OK);
    port = new Serial(path, 9600);
    port.on('open', function(){
        console.log('serial path: ' + path);
    });
    port.on('data', function(chunk){
        console.log(chunk);
    });
} catch (error) {
    if (error.code === 'ENOENT') console.log('serial path: ' + path + ' is not available');
}

I could see the data I pushed into /dev/pts/1 in /dev/pts/2 with gtkterm, but got nothing with this code snippet, did I do something wrong?

[edef1c]

Welp, that's a pickle — mind helping me repro this? I'm not entirely sure how to get a PTY pair set up like that.
I've been considering using a net.Socket instead of the current fs.ReadStream/fs.WriteStream hack, which is how node core handles TTYs (it's the only way of having a duplex fd).

So far I haven't done that because:

• I didn't have a case where the current approach didn't work
• Nobody else seemed to be using this module much

Neither of those seem to be true now, so if I can reproduce this easily for testing, I could get started on that. (heck, maybe I could even write some integration tests using PTY pairs!)

[kidwm]

Sure, this is my current test command:

socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0 pty,raw,echo=0

I've used this to testing node-serialport before trying serialport-stream.
Please let me know if need other further help, thanks.