From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 12:44:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA22772 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 12:44:20 -0800 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA22766 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 12:44:18 -0800 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA11328 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:30:33 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id WAA23886; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:30:35 +0200 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:30:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199503122030.WAA23886@shadows.cs.hut.fi> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 12 Mar 1995 01:50:38 +0200 Subject: Re: New Cyclades driver issues and status Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. - Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN