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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: docs/82296: ttys(5) man page misleads about use for non-getty
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The following reply was made to PR docs/82296; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/82296: ttys(5) man page misleads about use for non-getty processes
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:09:32 +0300

 On 2005-06-15 21:44, Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com> wrote:
 > The ttys(5) man page states in respect of each line of /etc/ttys,
 >
 >      The first field is normally the name of the terminal special file as it
 >      is found in /dev.  However, it can be any arbitrary string when the asso-
 >      ciated command is not related to a tty.
 >
 > However, this is not true -- the new_session command in init.c will
 > drop any /etc/ttys line whose first field does not give the name of a
 > file in /dev which can be opened: (line 937 et seq)
 
 Is this still true on the 5.X branch?  I've just tested on CURRENT and
 the following entry worked as expected, even though I certainly don't
 have a /dev/nproc device node:
 
     nproc "/root/script" unknown on secure