Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:22:51 +0200 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch Message-ID: <037d01c46a55$b034a0e0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> References: <20040714024623.GB623@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040714180816.GA5503@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <02c201c469f4$5a45b130$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <200407142050.24677.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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"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. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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