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On Saturday 19 May 2001 21:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and
> ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem "how do I get handle to
> ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0"?

One possibility is to add multiforked (multi-stream) file support to Linux, 
then you could have a control stream. 


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