[1036] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: patch to linux-login to attach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sat Aug 5 04:35:42 1995
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 04:35:20 -0400
To: ddaniel@vigor.jpl.nasa.gov
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9508030004.AA01608@yugo.jpl.nasa.gov> (message from Daniel Bromberg on Wed, 02 Aug 1995 17:04:18 PDT)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi.
Upon further investigation, your patch to the Linux Athena tty login
is not the best solution.
Theoretically, login runs "attach" whenever it determines that your
homedir is a remote filesystem, even if the remote filesystem is all
ready mounted. The problem is that login never correctly determines
that your homedir is a remote filesystem. I believe that the actual
bug is cleverly hidden in this procedure:
int isremotedir (char *dir)
{
return (FALSE);
}
This was a shortcut I took when I was adding Athena support to the
Linux login. I'm sure I intended to go back and fix it at some point.
I will fix this so that login can tell when a directory is a remote
directory, and it shouldn't be necessary to ever explicitly call
aklog.
Sorry, and thanks for the bug report and patch.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
