Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:22:15 -0500 (EST) | From | James A Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs v99.11 available |
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> JS> Which will change meaning if their is more than one head. > > WHY it SHOULD change mening ? Even with multihead you STILL have ONLY one > "current" virtual console for every program.
Okay. I was looking at the device point of view.
> There are NO things like /dev/ttyX in devfs. If there are more then one device > there are directory for that devices (/dev/tts/* for serial ports, > /dev/printer/* for line printer ports, etc). You can not use /dev/tty/* and > /dev/tty at the same time. So what yoy proposing as /dev/ttyX will be > in some subdirectory and there are will be "0" for "current" head as well. > What's wrong here ?
This is what I was asking. I didn't understand why you did the change. Now I see what rules apply to devfs. I was unaware of the directory requirement. You know this is going to break alot of things :(
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