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Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22

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From: Nigel Horne
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1987 08:33
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In article <163@tmsoft.UUCP> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>CLOCAL doesn't seem to do much, except determine whether a subsequent open
>without the O_NDELAY will wait for carrier or not.  So you do the open above,

CLOCAL does do something. It tells the driver to ignore modem toggles.
So if you switch off your terminal you don't get logged out if CLOCAL is set,
but you do get logged out if it isn't.

-Nigel
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From: njh@root.co.uk (Nigel Horne)
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Subject: Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 04:33:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 04:33:07 1987
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