lock-up for lunch

[Myke Reynolds]

In article <902 at ptsfa.UUCP> rhc at ptsfa.UUCP (Robert Cohen) writes:
>summery: may be easy, but why do this.
>
>> System V: stty clocal
>> Berkely: stty nohang
>
>Myke,
>What happens if this is a dial-up line and you drop DTR is that
>the next person dialing in who hits that port gets himself dropped
>into your security program.  Granted he may not be able to break
>out of it, so no security risk.  What a pain for that user though.
>He has to busy out your clocal'ed port and dial again.

Actually, by far the nicest use of DTR ignore is that you can put a process
in background and LOGOFF freeing up a terminal while still getting your job
done..
-- 
Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!myke


Where we are going and from whence we came are completly unknown to us...
and personaly, I have no idea where I am now.