Am 24.01.2011 04:44, schrieb Denys Vlasenko: > On Monday 24 January 2011 03:05, Rob Landley wrote: >> Wow, what a horrible leftover from the 1970's. You realize that actual >> teletype hardware hasn't been connected to Linux machines in... um, >> forever? The login command prompts for login: what exactly is getty >> supposed to be doing here? >
We have removed that last (real) TTY last your. You should have said that you wanted one :) >>From the code, getty is supposed to set termios parameters. > login doesn't do that, it expects those param to be set. > > Actually, other getties (mgetty IIRC) are much more advanced > in this regard: they can set not only baud rate, but also > 7/8 bits, and various kinds of parity, do expect/send handshake, > and even receive faxes (!) :) > > >> More to the point, do modems actually get used anywhere anymore? > > Modems probably no, serial lines yes. > I would like to to protest. Our monitoring station are normally equipped with a modem. It is cheaper that DSL etc. re, wh _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
