So I looked for a systematic naming convention, but according to the Linux allocated devices list (https://static.lwn.net/kernel doc/admin-guide/devices.html) there is a large number of tty* names in use for different serial drivers. Perhaps a different approach ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/9914339) is called for...
When I implemented the pascalscada serial port component, I decided to use serial.pp to avoid one more package dependency and missing features in synaser at the moment that I started the Implementation (2010/2011). So I implemented the missing features directly on pascalSCADA serial port. To enumerate serial ports on Linux, the stackoverflow link of the last message is the best approach that I tested, but works only on Linux. For BSDs, MacOS and Solaris, I still using the approach of name pattern with numbered suffixes. On Windows BuildCommBCD Windows API function can be used, similar to the approach used FreeBSD, Mac e Solaris...
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