From: Alan Charlton (agc@weasel.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/29/93 

From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Serial Drivers
Date: 29 Jan 1993 22:01:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.165432.4463@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:

   The 0.99.2/3/4 serial drivers have a set of bugs to do with CLOCAL, these
   prevent several programs that should work from working on lines without
   the carrier signal present. When the terminal is opened the line is marked
   as hung_up and when CLOCAL is then set the line is not restored.
   In addition the serial driver doesn't block until carrier is raised in
   normal use as Unix systems do.

This may explain why I can no longer dial into my Linux box from work
- I get the login prompt, but as soon as I press return it refuses to
accept input. Is my problem a symptom of this, or is more likely that
I have something else wrong?

Thanks,

Alan