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From: jeff@weycord
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: ipc "respawn" getty
Message-ID: <400005@weycord>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 05:31:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: weycord.400005
Posted: Thu Aug  6 05:31:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 07:30:38 EDT
Lines: 42


 A while ago I had a problem with the getty I keep around for
 uucp. I wanted it to "respawn" after uucp got a hit. The
 following little C routine works guite well.
   ( am I missing something? is there a better way? )

hpubvwa|weycord|jeff


# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".
#
# Wrapped by jeff at weycord on Sat Aug  1 07:54:53 1987
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# This archive contains:
#	init.c	
#

echo x - init.c
cat >init.c <<'@EOF'
#include <signal.h>

int status;
int wait();
int sleep();
int fork();

main()  /* init is a continuous getty for uucp */

{
  signal( SIGINT, SIG_IGN );
  while( 1 ) { 
     if ( fork() == 0 ) 
        execlp( "getty", "getty", "tty00", "1200", 0 );
     wait( &status );
     }
}
@EOF

chmod 644 init.c

exit 0