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Re: sharing a comport?
Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
> > It CAN'T be fine - you should NEVER use cua* devices - well, except with
> > setserial, probably. Change the corresponding inittab line to use ttyS*.
> cua*
> > devices assume only one process can access them.
>
> I know you are not supposed to use them, but how else can you have mgetty
> picking up the line for incoming calls, while at the same time calling out
> with sendfax, pppd, diald, minicom or whatever?
Of course, you can't USE them simultaneously - or do you really want that an
outfoing fax will interrupt your current ppp session?! Each process USING (not
watching!) a ttyS device locks it, so others see it and don't try to catch it,
even if they need.
Evgeny
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