From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 05/28/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: The great serial device naming controversy....
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 11:20:59 GMT

In article <1993May28.050410.13143@cs.ucf.edu> ssd@engr.ucf.edu (Steven Dick) writes:
>In article <1993May27.161345.4844@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com writes:
>[...]
>>I'd like to insist that this actually be a requirement, that /dev/modem
>>exist and point to the main serial/modem port.
>
>The problem with doing this is that it gives two handles available to the
>same serial port--which in it self is not bad-- but often the lockfile names
>are based on the serial port name, and it is REALLY bad to have the possibility
>of two ways to get to a serial port with two different lock files!!

So maybe it's time to bite the bullet and switch to SVR4 lockfiles.

++Brandon 

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