Re: why not mingetty??
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:40:32AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> > > The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch
> >
> > That's not true, it is -- getty requires a speed, even for a virtual
> > terminate, while mingetty doesn't support that.
>
> Does this mean that mingetty won't ignore this argument? That
> should be fixed, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, no it doesn't ignore the speed, I just tried it.
Apr 26 11:03:13 silly /sbin/mingetty[13276]: /dev/38400: No such file or directory
However this could easily be fixed.
> This is not a completely reasonable comparison (though it does show
> 0:00 time used by each getty, which is perhaps significant).
I've tried to start them at the same time here:
/etc$ ps -aux | grep getty
root 13240 0.1 0.9 804 284 6 S 10:59 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 13241 0.0 0.9 812 296 7 S 10:59 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 13245 0.0 0.9 908 308 4 S 11:00 0:00 grep getty
root 28139 0.0 0.8 804 272 5 S Apr 24 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 28176 0.0 1.3 872 420 ? S Apr 24 0:00 /sbin/mgetty ttyS2
> Finally, note that if we get too fancy it will be tough for people who
> need to use multiple gettys on the same system (but maybe that's only
> important for testing purposes).
Is agetty used much for serial? I always use mgetty here, although usually
because I want something more exotic like AutoPPP or fax reception.
Hamish
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