On Monday 05 May 2008 04:07:22 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Percival writes: > >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
