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From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can I fork/exec Xterm and prevent a getty()?
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Date: 20 Sep 89 19:22:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ginsburg@ginosko.samsung.com's message of 19 Sep 89 18:06:34 GMT

In article <3609@ginosko.samsung.com> ginsburg@ginosko.samsung.com (Scott Ginsburg) writes:

   I'm a new X user and am doing some experimenting with xterm. I would like
   to be able to fork/exec an xterm that runs a program in that window, and,
   I want to force the xterm's stdin to be from a pipe descriptor that I
   dup2'ed before I exec. The problem is that xterm does a getty() and wipes
   out my stdin plumbing. How do I accomplish what I want to do?


Under X11R3 there is a program called xdm which can be used instead of
getty.  There is also a way to use xinit in place of getty from the
/etc/ttytab file.  Check the manual pages for both xdm and xinit.

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