Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:08:55 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: ttyp's... |
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> > > >> I rm'ed ttyp* then did "mknod <file> c 4 7" for each one. Now upon trying > > (he now has 16 tty's all at 4,7) > > >ttypn should be c 3 n, according to linux/Documentation/devices.txt > >(and my Slackware system, although that's not really helping my case > >much :). Try: > > on my slackware system (slackware 3.1), ttyp0 starts at 4,192.. > > >Or simply; > > > >for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f; do > > MAKEDEV ttyp$x > >done > > i'd go with this one, since MAKEDEV is more likely to create new ttyp? with the > proper major,minor..
Not if the MAKEDEV script is out of date, though. No matter how a specific distribution thinks it should be, the kernel documentation says major 3. I can see a number of systems breaking because of this when moving to 2.2.x (or whatever release removes support for major 4 ttyp). The fact that the Slackware distribution does something is not a good indication that it is the correct thing to do; in fact, it is often a good indication to the contrary :)
-- -Neil Moore http://www.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us/~amethyst (finger amethyst@valjean.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us for my Geek Code)
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