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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 11:49:38 GMT Message-ID: <C6pI6r.6AB@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <1993May7.140046.1826@gmd.de> Lines: 43 In article <1993May7.140046.1826@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > pseudo ttys: tty[pqrst][0-9a-f] > dialin serial: ttyd[0-9a-f] > dialout serial: cua[0-9a-f] > non-bidirectional serial: com[0-9a-f] or ttyd[0-9a-f] > virtual consoles: tty[0-9][0-9] I have a suggestion. Change 'ps' so it looks in some text file to find which device files are ttys. Then make the names more meaningful: com0/1 Standard PC com ports. comd0/1 Matching dialout lines tty[0-9][0-9] Multiport com cards. ttyd[0-9][0-9] Matching dialout lines. pty[0-9][0-9] Pseudo ttys con[0-9][0-9] Consoles Or some equivalent. Perhaps the System V scheme: tty00/01 PC com ports tty[1-9]* Multiport cards cua* Matching dialout ports pty* Pseudottys vt* Consoles In any case, 'ps' should be made smarter. I'd like to clean up /dev a bunch anyway... create /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk and /dev/rmt directories for the various drive/tape entry points. Perhaps each multiple entry point driver should have a separate directory. That would clean up the tty mess too: /dev/com/tty[01] /dev/com/cua[01] /dev/ast/tty[0123] /dev/ast/cua[0123] /dev/pty/tty[0-9][0-9] /dev/con/tty[0-9][0-9] -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."