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Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
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> "ttyd0" is not distinguishable from "cuad0" when truncated to 2 characters
> for printing by ps, etc. :-)

*blink*

I'm sorry, you completely lost me there. How can you possibly have getty
on both the cuaXX and ttyXX ports? What's the point of making them
different... they point to the same physical device!