Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:49:26 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.mips ttys Message-ID: <200805050949.27063.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5978.1209974842@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <5978.1209974842@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Monday 05 May 2008 04:07:22 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <481EB19B.3000201@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival writes: > >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <200805050535.m455ZmI1030493@repoman.freebsd.org>, Warner > >> Losh write > >> > >> s: > >>> Added files: > >>> etc/etc.mips ttys > >>> Log: > >>> Mips ttys file. Copied from i386 version with removal of the vga > >>> entries. > >> > >> We should really replace this file with a script that generates it > >> from a set of sensible parameters at build-time. > > > >Yes please -- kmacy might have worked around this, but at one point this > >was the only non-kernel file which needed to be different for Xen builds. > > And for anyone looking at this, there is also a task to eliminate the > pty devices in this file, the reason why they are there has to do with > the introduction of the really weird notion of "remote logins" back in > the early 1980'ies, we really could do better. Err, I thought it was because utmp still uses the line index in /etc/ttys so ptys have to be listed in /etc/ttys to get an index. I haven't looked at utmpx, but it might be nice if we had a utmp format that 1) didn't limit usernames to 16 chars, and 2) stored the name of the tty rather than a dev_t. 2) is what I think has broken 'w -M /var/crash/vmcore.X' since 5.x. -- John Baldwin
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