device is an active kernel console and "off" otherwise. This is designed to
allow serial-booting x86 systems to provide a login prompt on the serial line
by default without providing one on all systems by default.
Comments and suggestions by: grehan, dteske, jilles
MFC after: 1 month
The ttyslot() function was originally part for SUSv1, marked LEGACY in
SUSv2 and removed later on. This function only makes sense when using
utmp(5), because it was used to determine the offset of the record for
the controlling TTY. It makes little sense to keep it here, because the
new utmpx file format doesn't index based on TTY slots.
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
assumption that only getty processes can be managed. Describe the
SysV-like ability to keep arbitrary long-running processes alive
using a non-device first field in /etc/ttys.
PR: 12767
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
more manageable and convenient referencing by login.conf (login
class database) and (e.g.) login.access.
This is the first of a group of commits which implements the login
class capabilities database.
COMPAT_43 cruft. This is supposedly the last core utility that has
been using it! (So now, one should be able to remove this option from
the config files. Be aware that the last officially released xterm
however still requires it.)
The getty has been running now for several weeks on my modem line, so
i feel safe about it.
Obtained from: mostly from the NetBSD vendor-branch
