Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:57:19 GMT From: Michaël Le Barbier<michael.lebarbier@laposte.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/104376: Device names listed in the syscons(4) page do not match the actual names under /dev Message-ID: <200610131157.k9DBvJLs091544@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200610131200.k9DC0cSM021073@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 104376 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Device names listed in the syscons(4) page do not match the actual names under /dev >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 13 12:00:38 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Michaël Le Barbier >Release: FreeBSD 6.1_RELEASE >Organization: none >Environment: amd64 6.1_RELEASE >Description: The syscons(4) manual page asserts that device are numbered following a DECIMAL RADIX scheme, e.g. the Alt-F11 shortcut brings on the elfth Virtual TTY, named `ttyv10' in syscons(4). It happens that `ls /dev' shows `ttyva' instead, thus following an HEXADECIMAL RADIX scheme. The documentation names are then incoherent with the actual names. >How-To-Repeat: ls /dev/ttyv* man 4 syscons >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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