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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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