Re: [Viking-devel] Bug squashing for v1.0

[Jochen K. <jk...@un...>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:19:26 -0500
Greg Troxel <gd...@ir...> wrote:

> It doesn't make sense to encode pathnames to special files anyway,
> because it isn't portable.  On NetBSD, it's /dev/dtyU0 or /dev/ttyU0
> instead.  So I agree that having a string and removing the magic list
> makes sense.
Seconded. I use viking on NetBSD. I had to link /dev/tty03 to
/dev/ttyS0 to get the GPS layer to work. The GPS layer properties
offers only a select box with Linuxish device names. This fails
miserably on anything non-Linux.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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