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To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] naming of tty devices. 
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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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