In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Kurt J. Lidl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Maybe now; that's not why they were added originally.
: 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.
Non-blocking open followed by block on read/write and/or select dealt with that long ago.
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