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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: sio - problem with login hanging up
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 21:13:09 GMT
Message-ID: <CADpLy.8Dw@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <226elvINNt54@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
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In article <226elvINNt54@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
> The initial problem is easy to
> work around using "stty -clocal </dev/sioNN" in /etc/rc.

This shouldn't work. When stty closes the port, it should revert to the
default configuration.

> However,
> there may be problems later if a user sets clocal and hangs up,

And this is a symptom of that bug.

> and
> there may be problems with the dual bidirectional port.

Sounds like it's time to dust off uugetty. I've always thought BIDIR type
ports were a bit of a kludge anyway.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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