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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:54:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, mjacob@feral.com, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: consoles...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010324185459.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103250211.f2P2BSA02821@mass.dis.org>

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On 25-Mar-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> > Sysinstall does need to be fixed, though, to enable the correct getty.
>>  
>> What happens on non-ZS machines if we put zs0 in ttys and put a getty on it?
> 
> Getty exits very quickly a few times, and then init stops spawning it for 
> a while.  Rinse, repeat.
> 
> Getty should probably exit silently with a better status code, and init 
> should grok this.  I proposed this before, but as usual never followed up 
> with real code.

Stick it on projects.freebsd.org so that someone else can code it then. :)  (Or
send a PR or something. :)).

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