Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > On 2017-01-28, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > >> (Although if I were to design an operating system, I don't know if I >> would bother with controlling terminals, job control or chirping >> modems.) > > I've been using serial ports on Unix for 35 years, and maintaining > serial drivers for Linux for almost 20. Many days, it seems like the > tty/serial API in Unix is the rug under which all the ugly dirt got > swept... > > [...] > > It's really pretty impressive how orthogonal they did manage to make > things.
I *have* been longing for a serial console in linux distros. That would make it possible to set up virtual machines from ISO images automatically as virtualization environments can emulate a serial interface with an SSH connection. As it stands, such automation requires ugly, brittle VNC tricks. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
