>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael L VanLoon <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> writes:

>Michael> life significantly easier for people who'd like to have incoming and
>Michael> outgoing things happening on their ports, without having to go throug
h
>Michael> the /etc/ttys / kill -HUP 1 contortions currently required (not to
>Michael> mention the sleep < /dev/ttyxx stuff.

John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us> writes:
>Seems like a getty which camps out waiting for input, and then takes the
>lock before reading input (waiting and resetting if the lock is held),
>would do the trick.  No need for kernel hackery at all!
>
>==John

Did I just hear someone volunteer to write some software? ;-)

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      Michael L. VanLoon                         michaelv@HeadCandy.com
  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
     Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
               In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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