mgetty and pppd (was Re: Playing nice...)

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On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 01:26:37PM -0600, Brian wrote:
> Klaus, Gert, et.al. --
> 
> Several people have made the assumption that there is a *locking*
> problem
> between my mgetty and pppd.  So apparently this is a commonly-discussed
> issue. But the reality is that locking works fine--I was quite impressed
> with
> how well mgetty and pppd co-existed. [...]

Mostly problems aren't provided by locking (when is used the same device
name). But ...
Once I got mgetty and minicom running parallen on my modem :(
In this situation was used commandline:

  killall vgetty; minicom

I can't repeat this but I suppose that locking isn't 100% proof.


Mirek