Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

Tim Jansen (tim@tjansen.de)
Sat, 19 May 2001 22:31:49 +0200

On Saturday 19 May 2001 21:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and
> ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem "how do I get handle to
> ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0"?

One possibility is to add multiforked (multi-stream) file support to Linux,
then you could have a control stream.

bye...
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