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To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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        questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject: Re: getty(8) don't show `login:' prompt 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:29:01 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 04:32:24 -0700
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>>   		login_tty(i);
>> + #if 1 /* XXX Need delay to continue... I don't know why */
>> + 		sleep(1);
>> + #endif
>>   	    }
>>   	}
>> -------8<---------------8<---------------8<--------
>
>No, that looks pretty good to me.  In my getty (heavily modified), I
>have:
>
>  if (slowmodem)
>    {
>    sleep (slowmodem);					    /* give modem a chance to wake up */
>    tcflush (i, TCIFLUSH);				    /* and throw out any junk */
>    }
>
>>From the man page:
>
>-S [delay] causes getty to delay <delay> seconds after connection has
>           been established.  This is for use with modems which are
>           not ready to communicate with the remote site as soon as
>           they are connected.  <delay> may be omitted and defaults to
>           2.

   I'd prefer to see this implemented as an option in FreeBSD (default to no
extra delay if the option is not specified)...like Greg suggests above.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project