From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 10:59:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9488437B401 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D0743E6A for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0438.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.183] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17dE2z-0001cK-00; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:59:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3D5402D5.2D0F3200@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:58:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console com1 to com1 == login race condition? References: <3D53B3E5.5384.276CA6F0@localhost> <3D54020A.C4D1F405@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fricking glide-pad... Terry Lambert wrote: > One incredibly As I was saying... one incredibly ugly hack I've seen used is to set the baud rate widely different between the ports, and then use explicit breaks to synchronize them so you can login. This relys on the UARTs not making the noise at one baud rate look like a CR at another... My money is on the hacked CR-greedy getty, though... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message