cvs commit: src/etc remote

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf at flood.ping.uio.no>
            Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des at ofug.org> writes:
: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: >   Log:
: >   Add traditional BSD names (sio[0-3]) to the finger-friendly com[1-4]
: >   entries so that you can do things like 'tip sio1' without having
: >   to remember the DOS equivalent.
: 
: NetBSD calls them tty[a-z]; we've always called them cuaa[0-9]+; Linux
: calls the /dev/cua[0-9]+; Solaris calls them /dev/cua/[a-z].  Who's to
: say what's traditional?

NetBSD is a little more traditional.  linux and solaris don't count in
the 'Traditional' argument, but SunOS 4.x and 3.x do (where they were
called /dev/cua* and /dev/tty*, where * was replaced by 'a' or 'b' for
builtin serial ports and something else for not builtin).  So sio's
use of /dev/tty* and /dev/cua* is fairly BSD traditional.

However, what's in /etc/remote can be way different than the device
names.  Solaris doesn't have /etc/remote, for example, and Linux's is
so weird the last time I looked that I have no clue what goes on.

Warner