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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: inittab entries
Message-ID: <4916@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 17:51:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 17:51:04 1984
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Without a program 'hanging onto' a port the settings are pretty
much useless, at least in V7 and 4BSD.  A tty that is not attached
to a process gets reset when you open it to a (probably site-dependent)
default.  The only way to get it to go some way and stay that way is
to open it and hold onto it, then set the modes.

A "standard trick" is to use

	sleep 1000000 > /dev/ttyXX &

before setting things up.  (Then you have to go kill the sleep later,
usually.)
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