Serial ports guru help is needed

[David Wolfskill]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> ...
> So, back to this usecase: Will a software someone is using to
> talk to logic analyzers, MSOs, oscilloscopes, multimeters, LCR
> meters, sound level meters, thermometers, hygrometers, anemometers,
> light meters, DAQs, dataloggers, function generators, spectrum
> analyzers, power supplies, GPIB interfaces, and more, really
> be used on a serial port that is used to log in (the getty usecase) ?
> 
> In general, I guess: No.
> 
> So the change from cua* to tty* is, while not really needed, not
> really critical.
> ....

Folks might want to (also) consider the use case of a serial console --
and being able to login to it (e.g., if all other access has failed, for
an out-of-band communication mechanism with a remote, headless server).

Peace,
david
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