On 02/03/2008, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hannah,
IMO you don't need /etc/ttys entries for terminals unless you need the > terminal to be managed by init(8) or tty flags to be set by ttyflags(8) > at boot, or your own program wants to read information from the ttys > file using the ttyent family of functions (getttyent(), getttynam(), > setttyent(), endttyend()). Oh, I see. For normal tty access, you need open/close/read/write, perhaps adorned > by O_NONBLOCK (if you need to open the terminal line even though no > carrier is detected) and probably a few terminal controls (see tty(4) > and termios(4), using ioctl(2) and/or the functions described in the > tcsetattr(3) manual page). Yes, these are very useful; especially the O_NONBLOCK note - thank you. On 02/03/2008, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc, you don't need to edit /etc/ttys, your C program has to open > /dev/cua00 (not /dev/tty00) and everything will just work. > Thank you for the very direct answer. This is exactly what I needed. Really thank you for your fast responses and your time. Vova
