Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:27:50 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <9509011527.AA13764@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> In-Reply-To: <199508312018.GAA07756@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 1, 95 06:18:09 am
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> >> `talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX. > >If you're logged in on cuaa0 "talk peter ttya0" won't work either. > >If you're distinguishing them by the last two letters, why not do what > >SCO does and call them "ttyd0" and "ttyD0" or something? Mixing up two > >mechanisims for separating the namespace is asking for trouble. > cua* has been used for a long time. (so has ttyx/ttyX, and originally /dev/cua* referred to a separate port on a modem that accepted control commands for the main port, but that's beside the point) Then use that as the distinguishing feature, instead of the last two letters. Doesn't matter that much to me. All I'm getting at is that the current system is confusing.
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