Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What about the serial port IPC discussion? Message-ID: <5255@cup.portal.com> Date: 9 May 88 20:36:06 GMT References: <30731@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <856@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <31046@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.4407 Tony talks about multiple readers of the serial port. Perhaps I'm missing a point here. I don't understand how this is a desirable thing in the first place. It strikes me that you need intelligence to make multiple readers work correctly, so why not have only a single open on the device itself, and have multiple readers talk to the server that has the device open, so that the server can incorporate the multiple-reader intelligence? Are there any circumstances where you'd want to "blindly" have multiple readers on a single serial port? I suppose that DNET provides a good example for a nice application of multiple readers, but it has considerable intelligence in supporting multiple logical streams. Does that illustrate what I'm talking about well enough? Doug ----- Doug Merritt ucbvax!sun.com!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt or ucbvax!eris!doug (doug@eris.berkeley.edu) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug