Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 21 May 2001 14:14:27 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> If you've got side channels that are of a packet nature (aka commands),
> then they can all happily coexist on one device. If you've got channels
> that are streams or intended for mmap, those ought to be different
> devices.

Since you've been refering to -9 - care to take a look at the contents of
uart(3)? Or lpt(3). Or draw(3), for that matter.

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