Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc/etc.macppc
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/08/2005 00:00:13
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On 2005.10.07 19:01:01 -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| On Oct 7, 11:56pm, rpaulo@fnop.net (Rui Paulo) wrote:
| -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc/etc.macppc
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| | On 2005.10.07 18:48:37 -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| | | On Oct 7, 10:17pm, rpaulo@fnop.net (Rui Paulo) wrote:
| | | -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc/etc.macppc
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| | | | | I think we should just bite the bullet and make the serial devices
| | | | | that conflict with the ptys /dev/tty0?
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| | | | What should we do to /dev/ttyX? ? Should we keep them there or shou=
ld
| | | | we create symlinks to /dev/tty0? ?
| | |=3D20
| | | We don't create /dev/ttyX?; we just create /dev/tty0? with the proper
| | | major and minor numbers.
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| | =3D2E.. and old configurations break. And users complain. And chaos
| | begins. :-)
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| So we perpetuate the lossage by doing nothing; that is another attractive
| solution :-)

Can't we keep the symlink at least for one release ? Or document that
somewhere...

		-- Rui Paulo

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