Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

Alexander Viro
2001-05-21T18:14:51Z

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> If you've got side channels that are of a packet nature (aka commands),
> then they can all happily coexist on one device. If you've got channels
> that are streams or intended for mmap, those ought to be different
> devices.

Since you've been refering to -9 - care to take a look at the contents of
uart(3)? Or lpt(3). Or draw(3), for that matter.