From: P D H (pdh@netcom.com)
Date: 05/28/93


From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H)
Subject: Re: The great serial device naming controversy....
Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 04:34:18 GMT

barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett) writes:

>if you have more than 1 modem, you can create a /dev/modem2 or whatever
>(even a redundent /dev/modem1) -- leaving the /dev/modem alone.

I might want a modem other than the first to be the primary.

How about first have a set of names that identify all modems:

/dev/modem0
/dev/modem1
/dev/modem2
etc...

And then make /dev/modem point to whichever of these is "primary".
For those with only one modem, the have /dev/modem and /dev/modem0
(if 0 is the appropriate number).

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