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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: New Cyclades driver issues and status
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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.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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