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NAME

       ldattach - attach a line discipline to a serial line

SYNOPSIS

       ldattach [-dhV78neo12] [-s speed] ldisc device

DESCRIPTION

       The ldattach daemon opens the specified device file (which should refer
       to a serial device) and attaches the line discipline ldisc  to  it  for
       processing  of  the  sent  and/or received data.  It then goes into the
       background keeping the device open so that the  line  discipline  stays
       loaded.

       The line discipline ldisc may be specified either by name or by number.

       In order to detach the line discipline, kill(1) the ldattach process.

       With no arguments, ldattach prints usage information.

LINE DISCIPLINES

       Depending on the kernel release, the  following  line  disciplines  are
       supported:

       TTY(0) The  default  line  discipline,  providing transparent operation
              (raw mode)  as  well  as  the  habitual  terminal  line  editing
              capabilities (cooked mode).

       SLIP(1)
              Serial Line IP (SLIP) protocol processor for transmitting TCP/IP
              packets over serial lines.

       MOUSE(2)
              Device driver  for  RS232  connected  pointing  devices  (serial
              mice).

       PPP(3) Point to Point Protocol (PPP) processor for transmitting network
              packets over serial lines.

       STRIP(4)

       AX25(5)

       X25(6) Line driver for  transmitting  X.25  packets  over  asynchronous
              serial lines.

       6PACK(7)

       R3964(9)
              Driver for Simatic R3964 module.

       IRDA(11)
              Linux   IrDa   (infrared   data   transmission)   driver  -  see
              http://irda.sourceforge.net/

       HDLC(13)
              Synchronous HDLC driver.

       SYNC_PPP(14)
              Synchronous PPP driver.

       HCI(15)
              Bluetooth HCI UART driver.

       GIGASET_M101(16)
              Driver for Siemens Gigaset M101 serial DECT adapter.

       PPS(18)
              Driver for serial line Pulse Per Second (PPS) source.

OPTIONS

       -d | --debug
              Causes ldattach to stay in the foreground  so  that  it  can  be
              interrupted or debugged, and to print verbose messages about its
              progress to the standard error output.

       -h | --help
              Prints a usage message and exits.

       -V | --version
              Prints the program version.

       -s value | --speed value
              Set the speed of the serial line to the specified value.

       -7 | --sevenbits
              Sets the character size of the serial line to 7 bits.

       -8 | --eightbits
              Sets the character size of the serial line to 8 bits.

       -n | --noparity
              Sets the parity of the serial line to none.

       -e | --evenparity
              Sets the parity of the serial line to even.

       -o | --oddparity
              Sets the parity of the serial line to odd.

       -1 | --onestopbit
              Sets the number of stop bits of the serial line to one.

       -2 | --twostopbits
              Sets the number of stop bits of the serial line to two.

SEE ALSO

       inputattach(1), ttys(4)

AUTHOR

       Tilman Schmidt (tilman@imap.cc)

AVAILABILITY

       The ldattach command is  part  of  the  util-linux-ng  package  and  is
       available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.