On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:
|pppd does try to restore the terminal parameters that the tty had when
|pppd first opened it. But the way the Linux tty stuff works is that
|once the modem has signalled a hangup (by dropping CD), you can't do a
|single thing with the open file descriptor you have to the tty except
|close it. So pppd can't restore the terminal parameters (it would
|have to close and reopen the tty, which it doesn't do).
Thanks for the information, I didn't know it was a Linux thing. It was
only yesterday that I found that by closing the terminal and then reopening
it just before the call to restore_tty() in close_tty() that the terminal
parameters are correctly restored.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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