On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, H. Eckert wrote:

> > I do have read/write permission (I'm running it as root, I assume I sho=
uld
> > be able to read/write anything I want).
>=20
> Unless some process opened it exclusively.
> It=B4s not really useful if two processes open a
> device and try to read the same data and both
> receive garbage.

I don't believe anything has it open.  At least, an fstat /dev/tty01
didn't turn anything up.

> > Does this inspire any more ideas?
>=20
> Didn=B4t you say you're running some getty on that line ?

I tried it that way, but also tried it without the getty.

> I haven't tried with NetBSD so far but the other systems
> I know have two device entries for a port, so one can be
> blocked by getty but the other=B4s still available for
> dialout (and some internal code of the driver knows to
> put the getty asleep and wake it up after the call is done).

Yeah, I went looking for cua* devices, but it doesn't look like MAKEDEV
knows how to make them.=20

Thanks,

-Bill

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