Re: [TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch

From: Cyrille Lefevre (clefevre-lists_at_9online.fr)
Date: 07/15/04

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    To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:22:51 +0200

    "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 06:46 pm, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
    > > cua* are supposed to be the line to talk to a modem w/ modem control
    > > (CD, etc.) while tty* are not supposed to talk to a modem and doesn't
    > > have modem control.
    >
    > That's backwards. tty* will hang on open() until CD, while cua* will not. I
    > use cu with /dev/cua* a lot to do manual modem commands to dial into boxes.
    > However, /dev/tt* is used in /etc/ttys on the boxes I dial into to run a
    > getty on the receiving modem.

    thanks for the precision, forgot about that, but the idea was here :)
    as told before, I didn't use my modem since 3 years now...

    Cyrille Lefevre. 

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