[1043] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: /afs/sipb/project/sipb-athena/xdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Aug 10 02:49:45 1995
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 02:49:40 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[964] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
> - I started with xlogin from the Athena 7.7 source tree, and
> imported all the Linux and NetBSD hacks from our source trees. I
> made long, detailed RCS entries for verify.c and xlogin.c, so you
> can check if I left out anything obvious.
I had to reintegrate the map_shell() changes and some of the group
changes I've made. I've obsoleted /mit/netbsd/dev/athena/xdm now that
this is done.
> - When I first ported "dm" to Linux, I decided that it was a mess
> and unportable, so I removed all the #ifdef'd code, and got it down
> to a simple source file that was readable and would probably only
> work for Linux. I rather like this source file, so I've kept it
> rather than starting dm over from the 7.7 source tree. This is one
> of the few parts of the sipb-athena source tree that may not work
> for all supported athena platforms.
This source file builds for NetBSD; I don't know yet if it does
anything useful when it runs.
