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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 09:31:29 GMT Message-ID: <C6uvsI.9uo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <1993May7.140046.1826@gmd.de> <C6pI6r.6AB@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <C6q296.3D9@BitBlocks.com> Lines: 19 In article <C6q296.3D9@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes: > While I don't like the names Peter suggests, My seconds will meet you in the morning. Actually, they're mostly cribbed from System V's /dev/dsk and /dev/rmt directories. I don't like the tendency in BSD to have the primary name for a partition or device pretty much arbitrary. It bugs me on the Suns at work, that the device at SCSI address 4 might be /dev/rst0 or /dev/rst1 depending on what SCSI address 3 is. I'd rather make /dev/rst/0t4 (controller 0 target 4) the main name, and create a link to /dev/tape. That the scheme extends easily to things like a plan-9-ish design is more of a case of parallel evolution. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."