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| author | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-12-01 21:59:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-12-01 21:59:07 +0000 |
| commit | 7f23ac7d47f501a0902c9782a7c7c27437e30d62 (patch) | |
| tree | 9132e26697550f204e5cc7815a2d3905b1a4517e /share/man/man4/tty.4 | |
| parent | 63b1dc9d5d7158229afedc4c7c7db0d30a99c6b6 (diff) | |
A couple of minor changes to the "Terminal Special Files" section to
help users connect that "hardware terminal ports" are usually their
serial ports. Also Xr cu(1) rather than tip(1).
ok jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/tty.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/tty.4 | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tty.4 b/share/man/man4/tty.4 index c09e65961be..142e0c02a15 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/tty.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/tty.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.40 2014/01/21 03:15:46 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.41 2014/12/01 21:59:06 nicm Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: tty.4,v 1.4 1996/03/19 04:26:01 paulus Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)tty.4 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 1 2014 $ .Dt TTY 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ This section describes the interface to the terminal drivers in the system. .Ss Terminal Special Files -Each hardware terminal port on the system usually has a terminal special device -file associated with it in the directory +Each hardware terminal port (such as a serial port) on the system usually has a +terminal special device file associated with it in the directory .Pa /dev/ (for example, @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ requires a hardware signal to indicate to the system that it is active, the dial-out device (the .Em cua ) does not, and hence can communicate unimpeded -with a device such as a modem. +with a device such as a modem, or with another system over a serial link. This means that a process like .Xr getty 8 will wait on a dial-in device until a connection is established. @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ If a connecting call comes in after the dial-out connection has finished, the process will deal with it properly, without having noticed the intervening dial-out action. For more information on dial-out, see -.Xr tip 1 . +.Xr cu 1 . .Pp When an interactive user logs in, the system prepares the line to behave in a certain way (called a @@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ above in the integer pointed to by controlling terminal, if any .El .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cu 1 , .Xr stty 1 , .Xr tty 1 , .Xr ioctl 2 , |