Can mgetty count rings and do something useful with it?

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Hi,

On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:48:32AM +0100, Roy Millar wrote:
> > Does xringd watch the RI line, or does it look for "RING" messages on the
> > RX line?
> 
> According to the docs, it watches only the RI line and can thus coexist
> with a getty on the same line. And, as I just discovered, it also seems to
> successfully coexist with mgetty (see recent message).

Interesting indeed.  I did not know that, but if it does this, and knows
how to handle the "catches" (you have to reopen the port after someone
logged off, due to all open FDs being invalidated after DCD drop), this
looks like a pretty nice thing.  So my "no" was wrong :-)

gert
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