From: garrett@sba70.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: 1 May 1993 01:05:12 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.
Hmm... how many other programs rely on the assumption that "tty"s all are of the
form /dev/tty??
Here's a proposal:
Use tty00-ttyff for ttys. (This allows for 256 serial lines -- far
more than anyone is going to want to use with a single PC runnning
Linux...)
Use ttyC0-ttyCf, ttyD0-ttyDf for the virtual consoles. That allows
up to 32 virtual consoles. More can be added by using ttyE?... and
so on. I don't think anyone will ever have enough VC's to cause any
sort of conflict with ttyS?...
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