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From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <414ED61D.5080607@cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:
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>
>>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