Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:04:49 +0600 (GMT+0600) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmt\i.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <199508310204.IAA11272@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199508302300.JAA26409@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 09:00:48 am
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> > >> "ttyd0" is not distinguishable from "cuad0" when truncated to 2 characters > >> for printing by ps, etc. :-) > > >*blink* > > >I'm sorry, you completely lost me there. How can you possibly have getty > >on both the cuaXX and ttyXX ports? What's the point of making them > >different... they point to the same physical device! > > `talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX. > I'm not sure how you could be logged in to cuaXX. Perhaps something > involving callback. Logging on cuaXX may be useful when connecting a local terminal by a cable with broken null-modem connection (many of them contain no wire from DTR to DCD). Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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