[ On Sun, December 18, 1994 at 14:18:16 (-0800), J.T. Conklin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Formal getty replacement yet?
>
> I remember what great fun it was debugging bidirectional modem ports
> under Xenix/286.  Uugetty sometimes decided that modem responses was
> someone trying to log in, and would continue to chat until I
> recognized the problem.

IMHO, it's an order of magnitude easier to debug such problems in
user-space than in kernel/device space!  Having "locks" in kernel space
means it's usually very very difficult to discover the exact state of
the system from user-space, and/or to forcefully change the state of the
system (i.e. much harder than simply removing a lock file).  Fixing a
modem configuration is also usually easier than fixing a device driver,
at least for most folks.

Also IMHO, such things a ignoring modem control, or flow control, on a
port are hardware problems and should be fixed with appropriate hardware
solutions (i.e. jumpers in the connector!).

-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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