Re: lock files, devfs, mgetty and pppd.
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:57, Brian May wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:00:55AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > That would work --- otherwise it's time to tweak the source on one or
> > both. Looks to me like mgetty's at fault here.
> >
> > Your best bet is to submit a bug against mgetty.
>
> However, is it really mgetty at "fault" here?
>
> Minicom does it the same way...
>
> (the way pppd does things does look nicer though...)
When this code was first put in ppp the Stallion device names were
/dev/tte/0... and the Cyclades device names were /dev/ttc/0... which would
result in a conflict with machines having more than one type of serial port.
The new devfs standard of /dev/tts/E0 and /dev/tts/C0 solves this, but has
not been applied to USB devices last time I checked. So the problem still
occurs if you mix USB and non-USB serial devices on a devfs system with
mgetty.
mgetty and minicom should be made to operate like ppp.
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