I haven't been able to find anything about modem sharing between dosemu
sessions.  I've gone through the list archives and documentation in the
tarball, so now I ask here hoping that someone has an answer.

I need to be able to share one modem for outgoing calls between atleast
4 DOSEMU sessions under Linux.  The programs only need occasional access
to the modem, and this application is working ( when it dosen't crash)
under windows currently.  Under windows, the program checks to see if it
can open the comport and then proceeds or gives a 'modem unavailable'
message.  I hope to duplicate that under dosemu, hopefully without
having to implement a custom locking scheme.

If I have to implement something, it may go like so:

What I had thought of was a two layer locking scheme that dosemu would
lock at the uucp lock level so another Linux process wouldn't try to get
control.  Then a dosemu internal locking scheme to track whether a
process was actually using the comport.  We don't have source to the dos
application, and I don't know if this is really even feasible at the
dosemu level.  Is any of this even necessary?  Have I overlooked
something obvious that will already allow this in dosemu?

Thanks for any help,

David A.

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