Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:10:48 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: lidl@pix.net Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ? Message-ID: <20050124.201048.21921498.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050124124250.A27718@pix.net> References: <20050124083043.GA8729@kukulies.org> <20050124151612.GC628@cicely12.cicely.de> <20050124124250.A27718@pix.net>
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"Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net> writes:
: Having seperate dialout and dialin devices really are just a kludge
: for having the kernel doing locking that could be done in userland
: code.
That's not why they are there.
: Just because FreeBSD does this the same way it's been done on
: BSD-ish systems for the last 15 years doesn't mean there isn't a
: better way of doing it.
That's uncalled for.
The real reason that they are there is that ttyd waits for carrier
detect, while cua doesn't.
Warner
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