[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <414ED61D.5080607 at cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:
>Just an idea:
>
>    Why not to add some general device enumeration for all devices, 
>especially
>if devices would behave the same?
>
>tty%{global_port}
>cua%{global_port}

This doesn't work.

There _are_ differences between serial devices and for instance
PTYs or NMDM devices have very particular semantics.

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