From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 16:04:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA07350 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:04:29 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07338 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:04:14 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA26409; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:00:48 +1000 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:00:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508302300.JAA26409@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmt\i.com Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> "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