Re: proposed change to getty

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2021-10-14 10:08, Jared McNeill wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > Right. Maybe I should have been clearer.
> >
> > Is that a problem? getty opens the device, and does the initial 
> > prompting. It then exec login, and when the child eventually exits, it 
> > waits a while before opening the device again.
> >
> > So far, so good. So getty have the device open, it can check if it is 
> > local, it can wait before doing a new open if it is not local. Which 
> > seems like the most natural thing.
> >
> > There - makes sense now?
>
> This is not how getty works.

You are right. I was trying to remember things and am messed up.

However, did I misunderstand your original problem?

And finally, the problem is actually simpler in the end. The local 
attribute information is (or should be) in /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab, 
so you do not actually have to open the line to know if it is local or 
not. And obviously there is no point or need to delay if we're local. 
But if we're actually remote, there needs to be a delay, and I still 
think getty is the place where that makes sense to have.

There. This time I don't think there is anything else to sort out.

  Johnny

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