Re: [tytso@mit.edu: Re: ttyS* lockfiles]

["Justin N. Penney" <spankenstein@mindless.com>]

Bernd Eckenfels() {
    Hello,
    
    attached is a mail from the fhs discussion, where Ted is talking about how
    slow new distributions are accepting the changes for serial devices in 2.2
    kernels. This should be a goal for the next stable release.
    
    Greetings
    Bernd
    ----- Forwarded message from "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> -----
    Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
    From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Subject: Re: ttyS* lockfiles
    ....
    
       How much longer will the cua devices last?
    
    I don't know.  Unfortunately none of the big distributions took the hint
    when Linux 2.2 came out.  They're still using the cua devices, and the
    FSF shellutils maintainer is lame and *still* hasn't taken the stty
    patches I sent him almost two years ago now.
    
    So unfortunately it may be a long time before we can get rid of the cua
    devices.  What I'll probably do is remove interlocking functionality of
    the cua/ttyS devices, and leave the /dev/cua as a way of accessing the
    device without having to open the device with the O_NBLOCK flag.
    
    							- Ted
    ----- End forwarded message -----
    
    Gruss
    Bernd
}

>From what i can recall i have never used a cua* device on debian. All the
defaults and examples were already using the ttyS* devices.

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