Re: [TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
On 14 Jul, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> I would prefer to stick to the "tty" and "cua" prefixes however.
> 
> I can agree on the tty prefix. I've always disliked the cua prefix,
> simply because it's nonsensical. It's the kind of prefix you pick
> when all the good (and bad) ones have been used and you randomly
> grab 3 letters from your scrabble box, sigh, and accept that once
> again luck hasn't been on your side :-) :-)
> 
> Seriously: the origin of cua is mostly lost and systems like UUCP
> have already been removed from the source tree. Anybody new to
> FreeBSD and who hasn't been around since the epoch will completely
> fail to see why the device is called the way it is.

I still use cu(1), though I don't know why the man page suggests using
the /dev/ttyXX device.  The /etc/remote file uses the cua device.
Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 16:39:07 UTC

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