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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com
Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, piero@strider.ibenet.it
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>> I meant cuaa0 would be bogus.  Who runs getty on their mouse port?

>Who cares about modem control on their mouse port? I don't use the ttyXX
>ports for anything that doesn't need modem control. Just seems cleaner to
>me. Am I confused?

The main purpose of cuaa0 to multiplex the port, not to disable modem
control.  In fact, cuaa0 normally has modem control.  Modem control is
disabled by setting CLOCAL after opening the port in O_NONBLOCK mode
(like X does) or by setting it before opening the port and locking it
on using the initial and lock state control devices.

Bruce