ttys(4)

ttys4

Serial terminal lines

Overview

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 0x03f8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x02f8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x03e8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x02e8
chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0-3]

Files

/dev/ttyS[0-3]

Releases

11 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0–6.0

From manpages 3.27-1 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.