I noticed a small problem with pppd on i386: 
When running a pppd dialer chatscript via it's connect option 
pppd waits forever opening the modem device.

The following fix works for me:


*** main.c.old	Sat Dec 24 12:51:57 1994
--- main.c	Mon Jan 16 22:04:24 1995
***************
*** 349,355 ****
      /*
       * Open the serial device and set it up to be the ppp interface.
       */
!     if ((fd = open(devnam, O_RDWR /*| O_NDELAY*/)) < 0) {
  	syslog(LOG_ERR, "open(%s): %m", devnam);
  	die(1);
      }
--- 349,355 ----
      /*
       * Open the serial device and set it up to be the ppp interface.
       */
!     if ((fd = open(devnam, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK /*| O_NDELAY*/)) < 0) {
  	syslog(LOG_ERR, "open(%s): %m", devnam);
  	die(1);
      }


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Harry Forker		forker@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de