Subject: Re: uugetty for NetBSD
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 10/29/1996 11:45:39
>> Me, I'd say it should go in iff it is somehow optional (controlled
>> by a command line flag, controlled by a boolean in gettytab, [...]).
> That's reasonable enough. I was starting to think about that, too,
> and was considering a comand line flag, but then Terry Moore sent me
> a version he did that does the locking only if called as `uugetty'
> rather than `getty.' What do you think of this?
Personally? I don't like things that mutate based on argv[0]. It is
rarely useful and even more rarely justifiable, in my opinion. If you
insist, I could live with that default, but I still want to be able to
override it in either direction. (It's really obnoxious to have to
write a wrapper that passes an argv[0] string that doesn't point to the
executable just to coax it into behaving....)
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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