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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Summary: sane??
Message-ID: <9587@alice.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 89 06:06:43 GMT
References: <20037@adm.BRL.MIL> <205@marvin.moncam.co.uk> <1035@riddle.UUCP> <1050@etnibsd.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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In article <1050@etnibsd.UUCP>, vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris) writes:
> In article <1549@salgado.Solbourne.COM> dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller) writes:
> >I'd *really* like a sane tty driver.
> 
> Hear hear!!  At a former job we talked a lot about how we would rewrite
> the tty driver.  One idea was to give the user, via ioctl's, access to
> the uart (or whatever serial-line multiplexer you have).  One ioctl to
and so on.....

this is plainly false advertising. it is plausible to give complete control
of a uart to a user. it is NOT plausible to do so under the guise
of a sane tty driver. normally, you would implement a new device
(say /dev/uart).