On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040715171007.X2308_at_epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: > >'i' and 'l' were intentionally not placed at the end, to keep unit > >numbers at the end and to keep the initial and lock state devices out > >of the normal device namespace (so ttyd* matches only the data devices). > > This makes less sense because it prevent us from using 'i' and 'l' > as tty driver identifiers. Indeed. The namespace seemed to be much larger when I added them these. I once planned to rename the world to ttyd* and cuaa*, but experience showed that putting an indication of the driver name in the device name is better. > >> > I would prefer to stick to the "tty" and "cua" prefixes however. > > > >Actually, cu* makes considerably more sense and is less of an > >anachronism than tty (teletypewriter, remember them? (*)). > > I think we should be consistent here, I don't like serial > ports to have names like "ucom" and "uart", "dcons" etc. Also, (controlling) tty device names must be of the form "tty<letter><number | letter>" or "console", for ps to understand and display properly. Even existing names like /dev/ttyc00 can't be displayed properly in the 2 columns available in ps output. BruceReceived on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 08:33:21 UTC
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