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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices
Message-ID: <1993May18.103444.26378@gmd.de>
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References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1776@lucifer.UUCP> <C74vqy.JpJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <C758LK.CB0@veda.is> <C77J1C.LCI@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 10:34:44 GMT
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In article <C77J1C.LCI@rex.uokhsc.edu>, ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
|> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
|>
|> >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.
|>
|> Maybe it is just me and my DOS background...but I see no problem
|> with calling them com[0-9]*. Sure, that doesn't make sense to those of
|> you who worked with BSD 2.9 on PDP's or whatever, but these are PC's!
|> You may even want to start the numbering at one (oh no!). Your hardware
|> vendor is going to think you don't really know what you are talking
|> about when you say com0 isn't work...
|>
|> As per virtual consoles, why not console0, console1, etc? Make
|> /dev/console a hard link to /dev/console0 (or hey, even make it follow
|> you -- that way, you won't ever be able to ignore those pesky
|> messages...)
|>
|> I suppose my vote doesn't count because I am not running either
|> 386BSD or NetBSD, but I hope to try again soon...
No apology necessary, this is not a vote :-)
First of all: one problem is the 'ps' process. Without changing too much
it would like to have a convention like 'tty[something][something].
Since there are only two characters reserved in the TT column, it is
difficult to distinguish processes on (co)m* and (co)nsole*
from each other.
Another aspect is that /dev/console is not a device at all; it is
a multiplexer that points to some real device which accepts "those
pesky messages". Never make a hard link from a real device to
the /dev/console entry; you'll lose its functionality.
Holger
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|> Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
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