Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:07:57 -0600 (CST) | From | Chad Schwartz <> | Subject | Re: Serial Console |
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> Nope, /dev/console *does* block. ATM I've found a quick workaround - I > use "stty -F /dev/console clocal -crtscts" to turn off the serial flow > control at the stawrt of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - this seems to work quite > well... of course it doesn't stop some program turning flow control back > on and ballsing it all up again :)
...and to fix that, you could easily travel into /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/serial.c, and a quick conditionional to check whether or not the change was being made to a console port - and if it is, dont allow CRTSCTS to be set.
Chad
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