From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 18:05:55 GMT
In article <C6Bu2I.4I4@gamble.uucp> nigel@gamble.uucp (Nigel Gamble) writes:
>In <1rokl2INNkvq@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
>>Just a stupid thought...why not let the serial lines be tty00-tty99
>>and let the virtual consoles be con00-con99
>
>This is a very good idea. I have never liked the Linux serial port
>naming, whether ttys0 or ttyS0. Why not use this scheme, which gives
>more or less unix standard names to serial ports (i.e. tty00), and
>renames the virtual consoles to avoid any clash?
>
>It seems logical that console devices should be named con00-con99 and
>serial devices should be called by their historical names of tty00-tty99.
>
For the sake of convention, tty names should start with tty. I like the idea
of VC's being named ttyC? etc...
Larry