mgetty flow control

[Vinit Adya]

I want to determine what the flow control implimented by mgetty on my serial port ttyS0. since i installed mgetty while building the system i do not have the source code. is thre a way to find out without having access to the build files?

[Stuart Browne]

From the 'man' pages:

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BUGS
Not all of mgetty configuration can be done at run-time yet. Things like flow control and file paths (log file / lock file) have to be configured by changing the source and recompiling.

Users never read manuals...

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Simply put, mgetty doesn't do flow control changing nicely, you'll need access to source code to play with it. The text documents (info mgetty) have more details about it, you might want to read into them.