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Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> Actually, "ls /dev/ttyS3" *does* display proper information.  It is "ls /dev"
> which does not show all virtual devices.

  You're absolutely right:

$ ls /dev
log=

  But I can even list ports that definitely do not exist:

$ ls /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1
...
$ ls /dev/ttyS15
/dev/ttyS15

  The only physical ports that really exists are `/dev/ttyS0' and
`/dev/ttyS3'.  Is this the expected behaviour?

-- 
Cheers,
Oliver


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