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Re: Under Linux tset should not make use of getttynam nor /etc/ttys
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Dr. Werner Fink |
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Re: Under Linux tset should not make use of getttynam nor /etc/ttys |
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Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:52:22 +0200 |
On 2021/10/22 04:09:06 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 09:24:06AM +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just to mention as even if the glibc has the function getttynam[1] but
> > the file /etc/ttys[2] was never used with Linux (not with SysV sysvinit
> > with its /etc/inittab[3] nor with systemd) the
> >
> > #if HAVE_GETTTYNAM
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> thanks - that's been there a while, and the "#else" appears to
> be no improvement (I'll investigate to see how to accommodate Linux).
A longer time ago I had done some changes for agetty at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git
to get this work for agetty in Linux for various architectures.
Unfortunately it depends on the architectures as well as on the
type of the virtual systems.
Werner
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