Re: ttyS0 versus cua0

[Bibek Sahu <scorpio dodds net>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Paul Tomblin wrote:

> Can anybody explain why cua0 would work when ttyS0 doesn't?  I thought they
> were basically the exact same kernel driver, but the "cua0" had some extra
> locking logic for the benefit of uucp?

	In theory, it should be.  Why it isn't... I dunno.  What I do know
is that as of the 2.1 kernel series, the cua devices are considered
obsolete.

[prophet: cvs-gnome]# cat /dev/cua0
tty_io.c: process 25464 (cat) used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to
use /dev/ttyS0

[prophet: cvs-gnome]#


- Bob