From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 23:03:13 GMT
In article <C6BCzr.Jpu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tinsel@uiuc.edu writes:
>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.
>--
I would suggest changing ps to print additional characters, rather than
artificially forcing our tty naming convention to be less readable in order
to maintain downward compatability. I, too, like the con00-con99 idea.
just my nickels worth,
Jean.
-- Jean Liddle Computer Science, Illinois State University e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu ============================================