Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:16:13 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ? Message-ID: <20050124151612.GC628@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20050124083043.GA8729@kukulies.org> References: <20050124083043.GA8729@kukulies.org>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > Just a question. Maybe it isn't true but to me it seems there > is still this duality between ttyd and cuad serial devices. > > Why is that? I'm just asking because someone I was talking with > about modems an comm programs was 'criticising' this fact > in FreeBSD "while other systems long have abandoned this dualism"? Because modems are still used for dial-in and dial-out. tty handing out to getty and cua to the dial out process. Moreover this handling was recently added for usb serials under -current. If other systems loose features - well it's their problem. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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