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Device numbers, Cygwin vs. Linux
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:33:32 -0500
- Subject: Device numbers, Cygwin vs. Linux
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
* /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 !)
* /dev/ttyS[N]
Linux is 4,[N+64], Cygwin is 117,[N]
Why these differences?
Yaakov
[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt
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