Subject: kern/9661: /dev/dty?? is not documented (com.c)
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/22/2000 23:39:18
>Number: 9661
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: /dev/dty?? is not documented (com.c)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 22 23:39:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Hawkinson
>Organization:
MIT
>Release: NetBSD 1.4.2
>Environment:
System: NetBSD zorkmid.mit.edu 1.4.2 NetBSD 1.4.2 (ZORKMID) #1: Wed Mar 22 03:24:44 EST 2000 jhawk@zorkmid.mit.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ZORKMID i386
>Description:
/dev/dty?? is a variant of /dev/tty?? for use with dialout
modems, presumably vaguely analagous to /dev/cua?? under some other
operating systems.
It doesn't seem to be documented at all, with the only
references being in /dev/MAKEDEV.
In any event, at least based on my reading of dev/ic/com.c and
kern/tty.c, it's not terribly useful anyhow, so it's no huge loss,
however undocumented interfaces are poor.
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