From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 12 4:34:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penmax.com (cc595093-a.mdltwn1.nj.home.com [24.3.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C488C15469 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 04:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vincef@penmax.com) Received: from REMBRANDT (rembrandt.penmax.com [10.1.2.3]) by penmax.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA01556; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:34:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vincef@penmax.com) Received: by REMBRANDT with Microsoft Mail id <01BE84B6.B983F5E0@REMBRANDT>; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: <01BE84B6.B983F5E0@REMBRANDT> From: Vincent Fleming To: "'Ollivier Robert'" , "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Baud rate of 0 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:33:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Joel Ray Holveck: > Why does setting the baud rate of a (wired tty) connection to 0 > terminate it? When is this useful? Historical behaviour. [] It was an easy way to get a modem to drop the line. The old AT&T modems of about 20 years ago would drop the line if you set the baud rate to zero. You could also use this to disconnect users at terminals, with stty 0 > /dev/tty15 - could be fun when you're bored. ;-} Vince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message