On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:19:26 -0500
Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to encode pathnames to special files anyway,
> because it isn't portable. On NetBSD, it's /dev/dtyU0 or /dev/ttyU0
> instead. So I agree that having a string and removing the magic list
> makes sense.
Seconded. I use viking on NetBSD. I had to link /dev/tty03 to
/dev/ttyS0 to get the GPS layer to work. The GPS layer properties
offers only a select box with Linuxish device names. This fails
miserably on anything non-Linux.
--
tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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