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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:00:48 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmt\i.com
Subject:   Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming
Message-ID:  <199508302300.JAA26409@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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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!

`talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX.
I'm not sure how you could be logged in to cuaXX.  Perhaps something
involving callback.

Bruce



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