[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.

[Roman Kurakin]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <414ED61D.5080607 at cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:
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>>Just an idea:
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>>   Why not to add some general device enumeration for all devices, 
>>especially
>>if devices would behave the same?
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>>tty%{global_port}
>>cua%{global_port}
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>This doesn't work.
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>There _are_ differences between serial devices and for instance
>PTYs or NMDM devices have very particular semantics.
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but all tty devices have some generic abilities and behaviour, right?
(Sorry, I am a bit sio-centric, I didn't ever look inside ptys.)

rik