Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:05:36 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Warning, cua2 opened, ... |
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:31:58 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
> P.S. Paul Gortmaker's patches to display more information about which > programs were using the /dev/cuaXX devices is a Good Thing. I should > have thought of doing that, but I didn't.
Would it be disasterous to change their major number to be the same, or convince the distribution maintainers to make cua -> tty?
/dev/cuaXX devices have different behaviour than /dev/ttySxx devices, so it's probably not a good idea to symlink them. The trick is that we need to stop users from using them --- so the right thing to do is to convince distribution maintainers to *remove* the cua* devices, and then make sure they have updated programs and shell scripts that properly deal with the /dev/ttySxx devices.
- Ted
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