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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:45:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        fortin@zap.zap.qc.ca (Denis Fortin)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, bmk@dtr.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: phantom users
Message-ID:  <199501120045.QAA15740@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <199501121729.MAA06133@zap.zap.qc.ca> from "Denis Fortin" at Jan 12, 95 12:29:03 pm

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> > >I did a 'who':
> > 
> > >bmk      tty00   Jan 10 00:01
> > >uuramjet tty01   Jan  9 22:55
> >
> > Does `ps lax' or fstat show that the tty is still open?

> Typically, this happened to me in the 1.X days when I had two entries 
> for the tty in /dev with the same major/minor numbers (who either
> reported a login that always seemed to stay there, or no login at all,
> depending on the names).

That's a real possibility.  I DID have tty0? and ttyd? devices witht
the same major and minors.  I am currently using mgetty, which does all
callin and callout on cua0?, so there's no duplication.

I'll run some experiments on this later and report my findings here.




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