Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 14:01:11 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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: <9286.1209996071@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 09:49:26 -0400." <200805050949.27063.jhb@freebsd.org>
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In message <200805050949.27063.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >> 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. That's _exactly_ what I'm talking about :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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