Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:59:09 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <9508311359.AA09129@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> In-Reply-To: <199508302300.JAA26409@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 09:00:48 am
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> `talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX. If you're logged in on cuaa0 "talk peter ttya0" won't work either. If you're distinguishing them by the last two letters, why not do what SCO does and call them "ttyd0" and "ttyD0" or something? Mixing up two mechanisims for separating the namespace is asking for trouble.
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