www.LinuxHowtos.org
TTYS
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (4)Updated: 1992-12-19
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
ttyS - serial terminal linesDESCRIPTION
ttyS[0-3] are character devices for the serial terminal lines.They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x3f8 mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x2f8 mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x3e8 mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x2e8 chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0-3]
FILES
/dev/ttyS[0-3]SEE ALSO
chown(1), mknod(1), tty(4), agetty(8), mingetty(8), setserial(8)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.13 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.