Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:37:13 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] naming of tty devices. Message-ID: <2850.1095687433@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:07:41 %2B0400." <414ED61D.5080607@cronyx.ru>
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In message <414ED61D.5080607@cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:
>Just an idea:
>
> Why not to add some general device enumeration for all devices,
>especially
>if devices would behave the same?
>
>tty%{global_port}
>cua%{global_port}
This doesn't work.
There _are_ differences between serial devices and for instance
PTYs or NMDM devices have very particular semantics.
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