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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bidirectional Modem Lines under SunOS 4.0.1
Message-ID: <3774@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Apr 89 16:06:36 GMT
References: <160@osc.COM> <743@key.COM> <2209@laidbak.UUCP> <1404@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1404@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> You can't rig it to cause the "getty" waiting on the dial-in line to
> wake up, but so what?  "getty" is "getty"; the only difference is that
> the tty port will have a different name - "/dev/cua0", say, instead of
> "/dev/ttyd0".  What's in a name?  You can call the dial-out port
> "/dev/ttycu0" if you want.

Then utmp is screwed up, because init thinks you were logged in on ttyd0
instead of ttycu0, and it never clears the login entry for ttycu0 in utmp.
You'll show up in 'who' forever after.

We do it this way on Xenix 3.5, because it's the only way to do it, and I'm
having to rewrite init to track this multiple-tty-name stuff and clear
BOTH entries. It's a pain.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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