I have a small problem with 'cu' and 'getty'.  For example:

1) # ls -l /dev/tty0?
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 0 Mar 22 20:39 /dev/tty00
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 1 Mar 22 19:21 /dev/tty01
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 2 Dec 21 21:28 /dev/tty02
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 3 Dec 21 21:28 /dev/tty03

   I assume that this is the default setting for NetBSD 1.4.3.
   The 'cu' program now works.

   # cu -l /dev/tty00
   Connected

2) I activate getty on tty00 in /etc/ttys and kill -1 1

3) I disable getty on tty00 and kill -1 1.  Now I have
   # ls -l /dev/tty0?
   crw-------  1 root  wheel  8, 0 Mar 22 20:39 /dev/tty00
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 1 Mar 22 19:21 /dev/tty01
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 2 Dec 21 21:28 /dev/tty02
   crw-------  1 uucp  wheel  8, 3 Dec 21 21:28 /dev/tty03

   The owner of tty00 has changed; according to the man page this
   is probably caused by the ttyaction() function.  But now 'cu'
   stops working.

   # cu -l /dev/tty00
   cu: open (/dev/tty00): Permission denied
   cu: All matching ports in use

4) After
   # chown uucp /dev/tty00
   cu starts working again

Is this the correct behaviour of cu and getty?

TIA,

Federico

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