Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:46:09PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 84znyv13jl.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>,
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk> wrote:
> >Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> >> Sometimes it is pretty clear (a disfunctional login has no place
> >> unless we are missing something, like some options which make it
> >> run, or some historical reason why it must be there).
> >
> >Actually the error message I get when executing login is "no utmp
> >entry", even when I have one, so it looks like it is just buggy.
>
> You must use 'exec login'
marcus@ulysses[1]:~$ bash
marcus@ulysses[0]:~$ exec login
No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"
Cheating doesn't work ;) Well, exec login is replacing the current shell with
the login program. I know that this works already in my personal lowest
level shell: I can simply logout of it, and the login program will automatically
be respawned. Is "exec login" actually useful? Apart from running your own
login program instead the system default (in case they are different)?
Here is what happens on the Hurd (I use loginpr, because that
provides only a small prompt rather than a full blown login
shell, but it works the same for both):
foobar@drizzt:/tmp$ bash
foobar@drizzt:/tmp$ loginpr
login: marcus
Password:
Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Hurd system are
freely redistributable; the exact distribution terms for each program
are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright
Debian GNU/Hurd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
marcus@drizzt:~$ logout
foobar@drizzt:/tmp$ exit
foobar@drizzt:/tmp$
Thanks,
Marcus
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