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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: snooping on tty's
Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:23:40 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <ECC5L4.5CJ@nonexistent.com>,
Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote:
> Then, MAKEDEV snp0, then use the watch program. What I'd like to know
> is is it possible to have two snoops at a time? I have /dev/snp0 and
> /dev/snp1 but watch still says that it cant open the snoop device if
> the first one is busy.
I am currently running two watch programs on different ttys without any
problem. On which version of FreeBSD do you see this ? Are you sure you
have two snp devices ?
I'm running current but the watch version in 2.2.2 is exactly the same (I
know I'm last one who modified it :-)).
18303 pe I+ 0:00.01 watch p8
18341 pm I+ 0:00.01 watch pn
crw------- 1 root wheel 53, 0 Mar 12 16:49 /dev/snp0
crw------- 1 root wheel 53, 1 Jun 26 14:21 /dev/snp1
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