Autzoo.360
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utzoo!henry
Tue Apr  7 00:08:15 1981
ttys stuff finally in
The new ttys format is in, as are a number of related changes to
init, getty, and login.  Terminal speeds are now right.  TTY, TERM,
and MAIL are now set to terminal pathname, terminal type, and mailbox name
respectively.  Init now writes a wtmp record on multiuser startup.
/etc/rc now gets /dev/console as its standard descriptors from
init, without having to open them itself.  Getty now takes arguments
giving the terminal type (a la termcap) and speed, uses termcap for
terminal initialization, and prints the system id.  Both getty and
login now use BS/CTLU instead of #/@ as the erase/kill characters.
Login now checks terminal restrictions (although it does not have the
kludgey maximum-users check) and prints long messages in the event of
failures.

The library ttyslot routine had to be changed to match all of this.
A number of programs have been recompiled.  Any user programs containing
getlogin or ttyslot will need recompiling.

/etc/ttys and /etc/rc have been updated appropriately.  The information
from /usr/pub/ports on V6 has been merged into /etc/ttys.