Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: smb@att.arpa Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Terminal Driver for MCP/ALM-II Message-ID: <8902100324.AA03286@hector.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 15 Feb 89 16:59:39 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 5 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 22:24:27 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 156, message 3 of 11 It sounds like there's a background process running which has the line open. Getty's open is thus not an initial open, and hence doesn't go through the normal initialization procedures like asserting DTR. Next time it happens, check for such processes. Don't forget about things like comsat incarnations.