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Subject: Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22
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Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 12:06:28 EDT
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WRT getty:  if you can't find anything else, the melbourne getty for BSD is
in the mod.sources archive.  It's configurable via a file /etc/gettytab (?)
(although, as with all Berkeley-style programs, it looks suspiciously like
/etc/termcap...).

One thing to watch out for is that AT&T getty-type programs must close all
file descriptors and then re-open to the terminal -- I seem to remember that
it uses O_RDWR on 0, 1, and 2, so you can effectively read from stdout (!).
It also has to grovel in utmp and add stuff to wtmp if it exists.  The
proper utmp record is the LOGIN_PROCESS type (see utmp(3)).  I don't think
System V getty actually uses utmp(3), though...