Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

James Simmons
2001-05-18T18:34:11Z

> > 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]

If you implement it as a filesystem you coould have a settings file in the
tty filesystem. Something like this:

echo "115200" > /dev/tty/settings