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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices Message-ID: <C758LK.CB0@veda.is> Date: 16 May 93 23:43:53 GMT References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1776@lucifer.UUCP> <C74vqy.JpJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 16 peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1776@lucifer.UUCP> rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs) writes: >> tty[a-z] Com ports >Because it's not obvious that 'ttyp' is a serial port and 'ttypa' is a pseudo >tty. Also, what do you do for more than 26 serial ports? Easy, let them be named tty[0-9][0-9a-z] and if there is ever a need for more than 360 serial ports just add another character to the name :-) That still does not answer what the virtual consoles should be named as. tty[0-9][0-9] like in syscons does not seem to be very appropriate. -- adam@veda.is