In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
