From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Devices and vc's Date: 11 Feb 1993 00:08:53 -0500
From: bairstow@haydn.psu.edu (Steven Bairstow)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 00:47:36 GMT
First question is this; with the release of 0.99pl5 today there is a new
device for the serial lines. They, the cu devices, are major 5 and the same
minor numbers. My question is, what does this do to /dev/tty? I have this
as device 5 0. Is this obsolete or what?
/dev/tty is still 5 0. The minor device numbers for /dev/cuaXX start at
64, just like the minor device numbers for /dev/ttySXX.
Does anyone have a script or program that updates the dev directory? If not
and anyone knows what devices are current, I will try to write such an
updating program.
There is such a program, MAKEDEV, in /dev in the SLS distribution.
However, it needs to be updated to deal with the new callout device, to
and to accept serial ports as high as 63 (i.e., /dev/ttyS63).
- Ted