Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On 22-Feb-99 Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> > because drivers don't propagate DCD information up to the kernel.
> I thought this info was available (after all serial ports create SIGHUPs on
> the basis of the state of the DCD line).

TNC's do not necessarily (in fact mostly they don't) propagate
the radio carrier detect signal to the serial port DCD line.
And then there are drivers for non-serial port hardware,
such as scc, baycom, soundmodem.

Tom

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