[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Aura Kelloniemi, le lun. 19 avril 2021 09:36:05 +0300, a ecrit:
> Samuel, thanks for all the additions. I'll incorporate them into brlapi-rs.
> The code is soon in the earliest pre-alpha stage (i.e. wraps most of the API)
> and I'll publish the repo on github.
> 
> On 2021-04-17 at 16:33 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>  > About asynchronous errors returned by write, I was thinking that we
>  > could introduce a very simple SYNC packet, that does nothing except
>  > returning an ack, but that will actually make a round-trip between the
>  > server and the client, i.e. receiving the ack means one has received all
>  > asynchronous errors. Programmers can thus call it after a brlapi_write
>  > while hacking, to make sure immediately that the write is correct. Once
>  > the code is good, the programmer can remove it to let the write be
>  > completely asynchronous for performance.
> 
> I think this is a very good idea. Could this operation also return the error
> message to the client?

Yes. This is now in.

Samuel