Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:46:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <199601292046.NAA04395@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601290025.BAA05001@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 29, 96 01:25:02 am
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> > 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. :) A full process table and active mgetty's have the same effect. A bogus shared library and the use of a dynamically linked shell have the same effect. A corrupt shell binary has the same effect. An improper modem setting (improper for mgetty) has the same effect. A lightning hit on a modem has the same effect. If you have a buggered configuration, it is irrelevant how it got that way, only that it IS. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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