Russell Coker writes:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:20, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I am currently writing a small application using the serial port. To
> > respect standards, my application create a file in /var/lock, for example
> > /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0
> >
> > What is the standard when using devfs and devices in /dev/tts ?
> > /var/lock/LCK..tts0 ?
>
> Most code is using /var/lock/LCK..0, which will work OK as long as
> only serial ports are locked. We need something better though.
> Maybe /var/lock/...tts.0 (and as a general rule make it
> /var/lock/...ZZ where ZZ is the device name with /dev/ stripped off
> and all '/' characters replaced by '.' characters)?
Why not use '!', just like emacs does?
> Signatures >4 lines are rude. If you send email to me or to a mailing list
> that I am subscribed to which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end
> then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the
> message (the sig won't be read).
Are you really automatically discarding the .sig? Can you do that
reliably? If so, you could bounce the messages, if you want to be
really mean...
Regards,
Richard....
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