On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:33:32PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >I'm working on /proc/devices, but upon comparing to Linux[1], I >noticed some differences in character device numbering: > >* /dev/tty >Linux is 5,0, Cygwin is 3,0
You're using a snapshot. After my pty reorg, Cygwin, probably erroneously, effectively symlinks /dev/tty to whatever your current "tty" is. It will either be a pty or a console. >* /dev/tty[N] >Linux is 4,[N], Cygwin 136,N (major 136 is /dev/pts/N on Linux) > >* /dev/console >Linux is 5,1, Cygwin is 3,0 (same as /dev/tty !) See above. >* /dev/ttyS[N] >Linux is 4,[N+64], Cygwin is 117,[N] > >Why these differences? I had a reason when I set up the device numbers but I don't remember any more. I tried to adhere to linux but there wasn't a 1-1 correspondence. And, possibly the numbering changed over time for linux. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
