[TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch

[Cyrille Lefevre]

"John Baldwin" <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 06:46 pm, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > cua* are supposed to be the line to talk to a modem w/ modem control
> > (CD, etc.) while tty* are not supposed to talk to a modem and doesn't
> > have modem control.
>
> That's backwards.  tty* will hang on open() until CD, while cua* will not.  I
> use cu with /dev/cua* a lot to do manual modem commands to dial into boxes.
> However, /dev/tt* is used in /etc/ttys on the boxes I dial into to run a
> getty on the receiving modem.


thanks for the precision, forgot about that, but the idea was here :)
as told before, I didn't use my modem since 3 years now...

Cyrille Lefevre.
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