If an application on the windows host uses rdesktops serial forwarding the SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES might get called and leads to an error returned. This patch implements the ioctl without giving back any data, however no error state is returned either. Taken from: http://sourceforge.net/p/rdesktop/bugs/372/#20fd Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher --- rdesktop-1.8.3/serial.c.orig 2015-01-21 12:46:35.222209021 +0100 +++ rdesktop-1.8.3/serial.c 2015-01-21 12:52:53.739897582 +0100 @@ -935,6 +935,9 @@ DEBUG_SERIAL(("serial_ioctl -> SERIAL_SET_XON\n")); tcflow(handle, TCION); break; + case SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES: + DEBUG_SERIAL(("serial_ioctl -> SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES\n")); + break; default: unimpl("SERIAL IOCTL %d\n", request); return RD_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER;