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

[John Baldwin]

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.

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