On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | D-Man writes: | > Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)? | | Locking.
I didn't know it actually made a difference. Ok, without doing further research yet so I'll assume locking is a problem : How about 'mv /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem' ? Then there is still only 1 file, but has the nicer name. Admittedly it does create a problem if you want to get at that serial port and the modem is no longer there and you don't remember that you renamed it, then you can run into a problem with having 2 device files for a single device. -D
