Q's on: System V /etc/init....

[Brandon S. Allbery]

> > One of the more interesting innovations to recent Unix has been the
> > new scheme by which /etc/init brings up terminals.  (I first saw it
> > in System V and I don't know if it was in System III, so pardon me
> > if I term it a "System V" enhancement.)
> 
> It actually was in S3; we used it at CCI to run a variant version of
> "getty"/"login" which had a full-screen user interface that was the same as
> the one provided by our office automation system.  4.3BSD will (unless they
> take it out) have a similar facility.

Speaking of which... I am on S3 and have a need to write a replacement for
getty... without source.  What does a child of init have to do to make the
system happy?  I was able to dope it out in V7 (actually Xenix), but I can
make neither hide nor tail of S3 -- my attempts uniformly were failures.
(My most successful one worked fine iff you didn't want to use a program
which opened /dev/tty -- maybe I was missing a setpgrp()?)

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Thanks in advance,
--Brandon
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