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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bidirectional Modem Lines under SunOS 4.0.1
Message-ID: <65827@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 9 Apr 89 06:05:41 GMT
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Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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>=This is likely to cause problems if you're trying to implement callback,
>=isn't it?
>
>Absolutely!  I have struggle many an hour trying to figure out a way to
>do a callback that drops into getty.

What's the problem? The dialout program opens the dialout device. It dials.
The remote host answers. The dialout program forks/execs getty. getty execs
login. login execs a shell. Shell goes away. The dialout program wakes up,
closes the dialout device, and exits. Done!

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