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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why /dev/dsk/* and no /dev/tty/*?
Message-ID: <3768@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Apr 89 00:17:38 GMT
References: <3757@ficc.uu.net> <10010@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <10010@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <3757@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >... what's wrong with having SOME sort of /dev/t/whatever arrangement?

> Nothing at all, so long as you fix up the handful of utilities that
> "know" about /dev/tty* names.

They can do it while fixing all the utilities that don't use perror() or
optargs() or assume that "" == "." or assume that "//xds13" == "/xds13",
and so on and so on...

Yeh, I know 'ps' doesn't like terminals called "/dev/cul32". But really
it's long past time this sort of no-brainer fix was finally done.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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