Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I suspect that there are a great > many places - shell scripts and C source code leap to mind - where the > lack of a terminating newline at the end of a file does not cause the > line to be ignored altogether. In both of those cases, the relevant standards say that such input is invalid. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct behavior (but what do I know ;) ... That's perfectly normal and age-old behaviour. Part of the definition of a "line" of text is that it ends in a newline... Hmm - while I acknowledge that I've seen this problem before (I've used some variant of Unix since the late 1970s and FreeBSD since 2.x), whether it is "perfectly normal" is arguable. I suspect that there are a great many places - shell scripts and C source code leap to mind - where the lack of a terminating newline at the end of a file does not cause the line to be ignored altogether. I rather think this is an "age-old" bug that never got fixed because of its minor importance. In any case, i've authored a PR to make note of it. If I ever get the time, I'll dig into the source myself and see if I can figure out where the wheels are coming off... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't > recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting > this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct > behavior (but what do I know ;) ... That's perfectly normal and age-old behaviour. Part of the definition of a "line" of text is that it ends in a newline... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Tim Daneliuk wrote: System is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I've added this to /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty dial.115200"unknown on insecure And this to gettytabs: dial.115200:\ :np:to#30:hw:sp#115200:pp=/etc/ppp/pppserv But when I 'kill -HUP 1' no getty process on ttyd0 shows up in the ps listing. I found (and fixed) what was causing this, but it is very strange and I am documenting here so others may avoid the pain. At the *end* of /etc/ttys the file, I put: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty dial.115200"unknown on insecure But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct behavior (but what do I know ;) ... Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
