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From: amos@nsta.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22
Message-ID: <332@nsta.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 14:41:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 14:41:02 1987
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References: <325@nsta.UUCP> <25073@sun.uucp> <3607@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <326@nsta.UUCP> <169@edm.UUCP>
Reply-To: amos%nsta@nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
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In article <169@edm.UUCP> steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>The trick is in /etc/{inittab,gettydefs}. find the line that controls your
>tty in inittab and check the last par for getty.  Look for a line in
>gettydefs with the same label in the first field.  Insert a 'CLOCAL' between
>the first and second '#' on that line. (That field defines the STTY state
>BEFORE you login.

Sorry, that's still not good enough - getty can't stty the line until it
gets a valid fd from a successful open, but the open would hang!

The only solution seems to have a small program open the line with NDELAY
and keep it open in the background.
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	Amos Shapir			(My other cpu is a NS32532)
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