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Re: Got it! (Re: console Sun logins)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 17 10:20:29 2001
Message-Id: <200107171420.KAA17258@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 04:07:41 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:20:23 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 5) Something more clever that hasn't occurred to me.
Try closing console_tty in console_login(), just like we do in
shutdown().
Another thing to try is not reopening /dev/console in console_login(),
but instead passing fd 1 (which should be /dev/console, the way we run
dm) to login_tty(). I don't know if that ought to matter, though.
> P.S. Did anything I didn't catch change in the last packs build?
> vim is lately exiting with the prompt frequently not at the
> beginning of the line, at least on Sparcs. This isn't a huge issue,
> though.
Brad upgraded vim in the sipb locker on Sunday. See sofa [414].
