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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: <3834@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Apr 89 23:02:48 GMT
References: <160@osc.COM> <743@key.COM> <2209@laidbak.UUCP> <1423@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1423@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> >Then utmp is screwed up,

> Not if the program that fires up "login" (e.g., "ct") knows enough to
> clear the login entry (which "ct" appears to do).

The program that fires up 'login' isn't alive any more at that point.

init execs getty; getty execs login; login calls back and execs the real
login. There's some reason I have to have the parent of 'sh' be init, though
I don't recall what it was, it didn't work if it wasn't done that way.
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