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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!gatech!concert!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!wsrcc.com!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!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: Wed, 19 May 1993 12:00:01 GMT Message-ID: <C79w03.Guy@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <C758LK.CB0@veda.is> <C77J1C.LCI@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993May18.103444.26378@gmd.de> Lines: 15 In article <1993May18.103444.26378@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > First of all: one problem is the 'ps' process. Without changing too much > it would like to have a convention like 'tty[something][something]. > Since there are only two characters reserved in the TT column [...] So fix PS. The Berkeley-style PS is pretty limited anyway (doesn't have the ability to select by user or by port, for example, which means you have to grep the output... and when you're trying to kill runaway procs you don't want to start up any more than you have to), and could do with a wider TT field. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."