ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20050124124250.A27718 at pix.net>
            "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl at pix.net> writes:
: Having seperate dialout and dialin devices really are just a kludge
: for having the kernel doing locking that could be done in userland
: code.

That's not why they are there.

: Just because FreeBSD does this the same way it's been done on
: BSD-ish systems for the last 15 years doesn't mean there isn't a
: better way of doing it.

That's uncalled for.

The real reason that they are there is that ttyd waits for carrier
detect, while cua doesn't.

Warner