From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 4 22:42:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA04814 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Feb 1995 22:42:35 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA04807 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 1995 22:42:29 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA10969; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 17:39:59 +1100 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 17:39:59 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199502050639.RAA10969@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, john@pyromania.apana.org.au Subject: Re: TTY Names (finger/who) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I have serial ports with the following names -: >ttyd1 >ttyd10 >ttyd11 I assume the 10 and 11 really are 10 and 11 and not l0 and l1. >Under finger or who - they all show up as d1 ! >Is this "normal" ? Many utilities only support 2-letter names, and one of the letters is 'd' to distinguish dialin serial ports from ptys, vtys, etc. Dialin serial ports are supposed to be named ttyd[0-9a-z] so that the port number is only one letter. Only 32 ports are supported by sio, so /dev/MAKEDEV only creates ttyd[0-9a-v]. Bruce