[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>] don't use cua* devices

[eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin)]

Wasn't someone taking these over?
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Message-ID: <19980515221506.A18344@dungeon.inka.de>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 22:15:06 +0200
From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
To: pilot-link@packages.debian.org
Subject: don't use cua* devices

please change all "cua" to ttyS" and inform the author :
 - cua devices are obsolete. they were even obsolete with kernel 1.0,
 	and only provided for compatibility
 - kernel 2.2 will issue a warning every time a cua* device is used
 - support for cua* devices will be removed in kernel 2.3

debian has a liblockdev library to do the locking of a device.
should be a help. the only difference AFAIK between cua and ttyS is,
that cua devices are preset with "CLOCAL", but you can set this yourself.

see the makedev documentation for additional information.

andreas


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