>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > /*
> >
> > I installed the latest tty patch. The call to open a non-existant
> > terminal device no longer crashes. However, it now returns a valid
> > handle even if the device does not exist. In this example, there
> > are only TWO RS-232C ports on this machine! An attempt to open
> > /dev/cua3 should return with -1 and the error set to something appropriate.
>
> Try 2.0.27 - it does exactly the same thing.
>
>
> Ionut
>
Is it the correct behavior to return a valid handle on a non-existant device?
I don't think so. Looking at the base address of the other possible UARTS
show that a read returns 0xff. Looking at the ISR offset, a read also shows
0xff. The initialization code should, therefore, understand that there is no
device at this address (I hope).
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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