NetBSD Problem Report #89

From gnats  Fri Jan 21 07:55:37 1994
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 10:54:17 -0500
From: kesteloo@cs.unc.edu
Reply-To: kesteloo@cs.unc.edu
To: gnats-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Should make /dev/{modem,printer}
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>Number:         89
>Category:       port-mac68k
>Synopsis:       Should make /dev/{modem,printer}
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 21 08:05:03 +0000 1994
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jun 18 05:40:29 +0000 1994
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 03 17:53:49 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Lawrence Kesteloot
>Release:        Alpha2
>Organization:

Alice
>Environment:

Any
System: ULTRIX hanson 4.2 0 RISC
Machine: mips
>Description:

We should put these links in with our normal distribution:
# ln -s /dev/ser0 /dev/modem
# ln -s /dev/ser1 /dev/printer
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: cgd 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 17 22:40:29 PDT 1994 
State-Changed-Why:  
"wrong."  devices should follow UNIX device naming "standards." 
From: "OBATA Akio" <obache@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
>Unformatted:


 cgd and Theo say that links in /dev are a Bad Thing, and so are duplicate
 files for the same device.  They also suggest renaming /dev/ser0 and 1
 to /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01 so that these show up properly in "w"
 outputs and so on.

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