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From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net>
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 Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:38:45, phk wrote about "[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.": 

> My suggestion is the following:

> 	All drivers will offer "tty${something}" devices, and
> 	generally ${something} will consist of a letter followed
> 	by a number, possibly in base 36 ([0-9a-z]).

There are cases when cua devices are used as login devices, and too many
places where 3 first chars of device name are removed without checking them,
e.g. /bin/ps:

=== cut ===
       else {
                if (strncmp(ttname, "tty", 3) == 0 ||
                    strncmp(ttname, "cua", 3) == 0)
                        ttname += 3;
=== end cut ===

When restoring terminal device from this name, now it is possible yet
to determine terminal testing /dev/tty$x or /dev/cua$x; with your new
scheme this will be impossible totally.

If we suppose to remain ability of logging in via callout devices,
these code pieces must be rewritten to keep "tty"/"cua", or all callout
devices must be renamed to terminals.

On 4.* I use the latter variant on one host: /dev/cuaa$n are renamed
to /dev/ttyOd$n, n=0...3.

> This results in the following major compatibility issues:
> 	sio's cuaa* gets renamed to cuad*

Basing on written above I propose /dev/ttyOd*


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