On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 12:55 AM <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:36:12 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said:
I feel like I am missing something... Does Linux consider the modem a shared resource instead of an exclusive resource? What use cases support two different programs sending commands to the modem at the same time?
The Linux kernel has exactly zero clue what a "modem" is. It's talking to a serial port, and doesn't care where the other end of the serial cable is. If you have a onboard modem, that cable may be all of 2 mm long and consist of a bunch of traces between two chips on a PCB, or even internal connections between two sides of a chip, but it's still there.
So the correct question is "what use cases have two programs talking to the same serial port"?
I agree about the general case of serial lines and /dev/ttySn. However... /dev/ttyACMn are modems, not serial lines. For whatever reason the kernel made a special case for the devices. The kernel knows exactly what they are. Jeff