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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:42:26 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
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Hi!
Hi!

> They might also be exactly the same channel, except with certain magic
> bits set. The example peter gave was fine: tty devices could very usefully
> be opened with something like
> 
> 	fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR);
> 
> where we actually open up exactly the same channel as if we opened up
> /dev/cua00, we just set the speed etc at the same time. Which makes things

Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without
reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device]
								Pavel
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