Re: [issue1485] getty doesn't work on serial port

[Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@xxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :New submission from Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>:
> :
> :Getty doesn't work on serial port any more. It certainly did some months ag=
> :o=2E
>
>     I tested this with the latest master and it does work but it must
>     be enabled in /etc/ttys.
getty does indeed work, but usually you can't log in because it's stuck 
on ttyhup wait channel, or because login gets stuck on ttydcd.
Observed behaviour indicates it's a race in the kernel. Before devfs 
everything worked fine.