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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:28:13 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.freebsd.org>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/slattach uucplock.c Makefile slattach.c
Message-ID:  <BgTydNm0B0@ache.dialup.demos.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199509190526.HAA05067@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch at Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:26:22 %2B0200 (MET DST)
References:  <199509190526.HAA05067@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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In message <199509190526.HAA05067@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes:

>As Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>> 
>> ache        95/09/18 20:27:33
>> 
>>   Modified:    sbin/slattach  Makefile slattach.c
>>   Added:       sbin/slattach  uucplock.c
>>   Log:
>>   Implement uucp-locking

>Hmm, i think it's not of much use since the dialing program needs
>already to lock the tty prior slattach gets control over it (at least,
>for a separate dialer).

This locks for dialout pgms such as cu and uucico.
I have some sort of schedule on my site: several hours for slip,
several hours for UUCP feed and cu users activity.
I don't want this program step each other.

>Your changes will most likely now have broken
>my SLIP wrapper. :-(  You would better have put this into the slipdial
>program.

It *is* slipdial program. And it needs lock tty, because it can be stolen
in the middle. Basically all dialout programs needs to lock tty.
Now it does right thing. Check your wrapper better.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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