From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 16:52:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA15450 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15431 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA27787 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:51:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA13520 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:51:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id BAA05001 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:25:02 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601290025.BAA05001@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:25:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601282257.PAA01785@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 28, 96 03:57:11 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > If the machine crashes, getty goes away (the POST state on a proper serial > port is to not assert DTR), and so the modems are not answered. Hung machines (processes are alive, but context-switch hangs) cause the modem to pick up the line, but nothing happens. Despite of this, i'm still not yet convinced that mgetty is the better solution. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)