[Toybox] getty questions.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jun 29 07:19:45 PDT 2014


Looking at getty, it has a lot of modem support, including autodetecting
the rate of incoming modem connections from the "CONNECT" message.

Do you actually have a use case for this? Are there still modems in live
use in 2014, where they're hooked up to a unix system that's waiting for
you to dial in at an unknown serial port rate? (Not internet, not a
statically configured serial connection set by the bootloader or the
console= command line argument?)

Or is this there because that's what you expect getty to do, not because
you personally know anybody who's still using that functionality?

Rob


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