Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:47:18 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] naming of tty devices. Message-ID: <414EDF66.8030907@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <2850.1095687433@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <2850.1095687433@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>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.
>
>
but all tty devices have some generic abilities and behaviour, right?
(Sorry, I am a bit sio-centric, I didn't ever look inside ptys.)
rik
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