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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: tty and serial console com port
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, snort Snort wrote:

> I just read thru the tty.h file and the tty command,
> and have a feeling that the tty command and the tty.h
> file does not handle the serial console com port
> directly.
>
> Can anyone tell me which part of the tty source does
> invoke serial console com port?

Serial console is handled by the kernel by src/sys/kern/tty_cons.c.
Userland is totally unaware that serial console is enabled.

What are you trying to do?

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