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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Real Fix for Kermit on Solaris?
Date: 4 Oct 1995 17:24:37 GMT
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951002143400.5139A-100000@toucan>,
Bjorn Eng <Bjorn.T.Eng@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
: I have built C-Kermit 5A(190) on a Sun Sparc-20 Solaris 2.4 machine.
: It runs fine but if I use it for dial-out it messes up the port monitor
: (Solaris getty-like process). Looking through the '.bwr' files I saw
: this problem mentioned with a fix that didn't appeal to me too much. The
: fix involves killing off the port monitor and starting a new one every
: time you run Kermit. Aliasing kermit to a script that runs setuid root to
: reset the port...
:
: Does anyone have a fix for whatever Kermit is doing to the port
: monitor?
:
Kermit isn't doing anything to the port monitor. Kermit is using the same
technique that it has used successfully for over a decade to access dialout
devices on more than 400 different UNIX platforms. If Sun changes the rules
and requires some proprietary scheme for obtaining indulgences from their
"Port Monitor", then we'll be glad to include the code for this if it is not
proprietary and need not be licensed and can be redistributed and somebody
tells us what it is.
: This does not happen when you use tip for dialout.
:
Of course it doesn't -- Solaris Tip is specially coded by Sun for Solaris,
and you don't get source code to see how they handle the port monitor.
Kermit is coded to be portable. It's not easy being portable, especially
now that every company has its own unique "open standard" for doing each
thing :-)
- Frank