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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Help
To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:13:38 -0700 (MST)
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> In stty, on is shown as clocal, and off is shown as -clocal.  The
> modem control line to which it refers is DCD (Data Carrier Detect),
> which only comes on when you have established a connection.  In the
> olden days, before modems had autodial capability, this was
> appropriate, but now it's a pain.

CLOCAL means "hang pending off->on DCD transition from the DCE".

CLOCAL is supposed to be set/unset based on the use of the O_NDELAY
or non-use of O_NDELAY as an open flag.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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