We do serial differently.

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:58:32AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Note that that really describes the tty-layer behavior, it's what tells
> the ftdi chip to turn dtr on and off, so it should apply to other
> brands of usb adapter as well.
> 
> Looking at that page you cited in your original message and how it
> talks about a dtr connection to reset, this might be the problem.  You
> can try "stty -f /dev/cuaU0 -hupcl" -- that will force the signal to be
> driven low continuously, regardless of whether anyone has the device
> open or not.  But there's no telling if that's the right behavior for
> your arduino, it might just be differently-wrong, like never doing the
> reset at all.  If the line needs to be pulsed to do a reset maybe you
> can use a wrapper script that does stty hupcl; sleep .1; stty -hupcl,
> then launches your program.

For each tty device, including cuaU*, there are <name>.init and <name>.lock
devfs nodes which can be used to set the initial and permanent states of
the flags.  It might be useful in this situation.