From: mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) Subject: Re: Why not change "tty" to "con" or "cty"? Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 16:50:42 GMT
In article <C6Gs60.Brv@boulder.parcplace.com>, imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
|> In article <1s38jdINN4b@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller - Linux
|> Device Registrar) writes:
|> >With the above method, you'd do a "ps" and you wouldn't know whether you
|> >were looking at serial ports, pseudo-tty's, or virtual consoles! but if we
|> >use "tty[c-f][0-f]" it's obvious!
|>
|> Hmmm. Well, you could fix ps to print more of the information about
|> the line that it is attached to. After all, it was written when all
|> tty's had the prefix /dev/tty. ps on IRIX, for example, list the
|> entire name of the tty (eg ttyq1).
I like this suggestion. I think that the pty/tty/cua/vty method is
much cleaner and more intuitive. I really shouldn't have to dig out the
manuals to check whether [c-f] is serial in, out, or virtual console!
Much better to have meaningful names, rather than characters.
(The fact that I work on Irix all day might have something to do with this.)
:-)
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