In article <14966.42680.606018.673854@cerise.globalmegacorp.com> you wrote: > Note: don't create aliases (e.g. symlinks) for tty devices. These are > typically locked by name (using lock files), so if you have multiple > names for a tty device, locking one name doesn't lock any others. ttyS will lock themself, but a Lockfile which is pointing to major/minor would also work. Unfortnatelly minicom is not supporting that out of the box. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org