Multiple rtems_io_register_name

Ralf Corsepius corsepiu at faw.uni-ulm.de
Thu Oct 23 08:15:13 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:56, Cedric Aubert wrote:

> Another related question, is it mandatory to the
> symlink to be in the /dev directory ?
Well, not strictly as far as RTEMS is concerned, ie. RTEMS doesn't
necessarily force you to do this.

However  I'd strongly encourage you to do so, because it is common
standard to have all devices under /dev and because this mandated for
some devices by POSIX/IEEE.

> Example :
> 
> symlink ("/dev/porta", "/term0")

IMO, a bad idea ;)

Ralf





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