Re: Initial release of open(1) (AIX conformant command to open VC's)
> 1. Couldn't this go into one of the other 'util' packages? Maybe
> sysutils? It is after all very small.
IMHO it belongs into the kbd package but that is up to the maintainer.
But the open package may be expanded itself, already some people have
sent me suggestions.
> 2. I like the idea of using open(1) with only 1 or two gettys spawned
> by /etc/inittab. However, this is fundamentally different behaviour
> and is likely to confuse many users. Perhaps we should make it an
> "option" for the time being.
One could use the news(1) command to document that user-visible change :-)
But seriously, i think that besides the boot/rootdisk (where the addition
would make sense) it should be left to the sysadmin to make the necessary
changes, if he/she wants to.
Dominik
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