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Re: Under Linux tset should not make use of getttynam nor /etc/ttys


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Under Linux tset should not make use of getttynam nor /etc/ttys
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:09:06 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 09:24:06AM +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just to mention as even if the glibc has the function getttynam[1] but
> the file /etc/ttys[2] was never used with Linux (not with SysV sysvinit
> with its /etc/inittab[3] nor with systemd) the
> 
> #if HAVE_GETTTYNAM

thanks - that's been there a while, and the "#else" appears to
be no improvement (I'll investigate to see how to accommodate Linux).

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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