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Re: utmpx lossage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Thu Jun 18 14:28:55 1998

Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:28:47 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: rbasch@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU

> I'll check on this, but I thought that getty simply exec'ed login,
> without forking, and so isn't around to clean up upon logout.

Ugh. You're right. I appear to have gotten confused when making the
patches for the new login library. Sigh. I'd fix it, but I have no
time for the next week or two, which I kinda doubt is soon enough...

> Or, is nanny supposed to start another getty on tport then?  It
> doesn't seem to be...

Nope. It's supposed to go back to X.

Craig

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