Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[James Simmons]

> > They might also be exactly the same channel, except with certain magic
> > bits set. The example peter gave was fine: tty devices could very usefully
> > be opened with something like
> > 
> >     fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR);
> > 
> > where we actually open up exactly the same channel as if we opened up
> > /dev/cua00, we just set the speed etc at the same time. Which makes things
> 
> Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without
> reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device]

If you implement it as a filesystem you coould have a settings file in the
tty filesystem. Something like this:

echo "115200" >  /dev/tty/settings


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