Opinions solicted for changes to tty names in 1.7.10
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Jul 3 09:33:00 GMT 2011
On Jul 2 19:43, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 06:42:04AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >Hmm, the two-character ut_id would actually be a problem with Unix98
> >ptys, because according to Linux's 'man utmp' it's supposed to be 'p'
> >followed by the pts number there. This would only allow for 10 ptys.
> >
> >How about going with the BSD scheme as previously used on Linux?
> >Should be much less work than Unix98 ptys as well.
> >
> >consoles: ttyN
> >pty masters: /dev/pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]
> >pty slaves: /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]
> >
> >The [p-za-e][0-9a-f] encoding allows for up to 256 pseudo terminal
> >pairs and fits into ut_id.
>
> If it boils down to making the tty number look more like linux
> (/dev/pts/10) or just puting a "10" in ut_id, I'd opt for just putting
> the "10" there. The "p" really wouldn't make any sense for Cygwin since
> we no longer have ttys.
But how do you differ between console 10 and tty 10? The BSD/old-Linux
naming scheme seems a good way to accomplish that.
Corinna
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