From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: 30 Apr 1993 20:31:02 GMT
mfrankow@piper.hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:
> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov wrote:
> : Just a stupid thought...why not let the serial lines be tty00-tty99
> : and let the virtual consoles be con00-con99
> Hmm.. Not to stupid in my eyes. COme to think of it, of all the other ideas
> passed around, this one by far makes the most sense. I like it :)
What about programs like ps, that just print the last two characters of the
tty name? I won't be able to tell whether something is running on a serial
port, or the console.
-- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -- A. Einstein