From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: Why not change "tty" to "con" or "cty"? Date: 10 May 1993 19:38:43 GMT
mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:
> 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.
Only one problem. This still doesn't address that psuedo-tty's have
to have _two_ device files each. If tty is going to be only for serial
tty's, what's the other end of a pseudo-tty going to be?
On a side note, there are only enough minors for 64 serial lines,
right? Why not use names like ttyS[0-9,a-z,A-X]. There's no danger
of running out of name space.
In any case, this should wait until the driver's author returns to
comp.os.linux.
-- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) "Conform and be dull." -- J. Frank Dobie