From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Sep  9 11:38:27 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26228
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:38:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26223
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from tlambert@localhost)
	by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28913;
	Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:38:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Message-Id: <199709091838.LAA28913@usr04.primenet.com>
Subject: Re: How the heck do you drop DTR?
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:38:13 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199709090819.SAA01536@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 9, 97 06:19:03 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
Content-Type: text
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> > wierd... assuming that all file descriptors to the modem is closed,
> > DTR should drop...  
> 
> Not necessarily; was the port in drainwait?  (ie. had output data
> that couldn't be sent?)

Ugh.  I *hate* the way CTS/RTS handling is i effect in the abscence
of DCD.  It makes no sense whatsoever.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.