Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:30:35 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: New Cyclades driver issues and status Message-ID: <199503122030.WAA23886@shadows.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 12 Mar 1995 01:50:38 %2B0200
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> 1. FreeBSD seems to have bidir support in the device driver
> rather than at the application level. Is this the official
> policy? I.E. using /dev/cua and /dev/ttyd?
It's traditional BSD.
It avoids the lockfile issue for the getty program.
... but makes it necessary to duplicate the same functionality into all
serial drivers, which isn't too wise either.
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