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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!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: Thu, 13 May 1993 01:19:05 GMT Message-ID: <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> Lines: 16 In article <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: > But the tty names should ALWAYS start with tty. Why? But even if you do that, Iwould suggest that you adopt a more specific name scheme: tty[class][device][port#] So you'd have ttycom00, ttycom01, ttyast0[0-3], ttydigi[01][00-15], ... -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."