You know I didn't suggest that, right? I find it pretty strange too, but
I'm listening to hear the technical arguments.
> Just think about the implications of the original "/dev/ttyS0/19200"
> suggestion. It sounds nice and tempting. But which programs will
> benefit. Which gets confused. What will be cleaned up. After some
> thoughts you'll find out that it's useless ;-)
You know I didn't suggest that either, right? But I'm with you, I don't
like it at'all, not least because we might change baud rate on the fly.
> And with special "ctrl" devices (ie /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS0ctrl):
> This _may_ work for some kind of devices. But serial ports are one
> example where it simply will _not_. It requires that you know the
> name of the device. For ttys this is often not the case.
> Even if you manage to get some name for stdin for example - now I
> should simply attach a "ctrl" to that name to get a control channel???
> At least dangerous. If I'm lucky I only get an EPERM...
Again, I'll provide a sympathetic ear, but it wasn't my suggestion.
> Ciao, ET.
And you were referring to who?
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