Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 00:50:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) |
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> And with special "ctrl" devices (ie /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS0ctrl): > This _may_ work for some kind of devices. But serial ports are one > example where it simply will _not_. It requires that you know the
That's quite funny, you know...
------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dennis Ritchie (dmr@bell-labs.com) Subject: Re: Plan 9 (was Re: Rubouts) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: 1998/10/12 Neil Franklin wrote: > > No ioctl()s? > > Something like: echo "38400,8,n,1" > /ioctrl/ttyS0 ? > > Now that would be cool. > Exactly like that, though it would be /dev/eia80ctl . No ioctl().
> Is there anyone who has an URL about Plan 9. Code download? >
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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