[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <414EDF66.8030907 at cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:

>>>   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.
>>
>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.)

Yes, and those generic abilities is why I want systematic naming.

But a global numbering gives you no way to know that tty234 is a PTY
and tty235 is a USB device.

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