Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
"Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:
> 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'
Why? It does work if I do that, though. The error message could use
some work, given that it states a false fact and doesn't tell you what
the real problem is.
>> It used to work fine when invoked from a login shell (and still does
>> in FreeBSD).
>
> Because the shell has 'alias login=exec login' built in
Nope. It's bash 2.05a.0(1)-release in both cases, and truss reveals
that it does fork.
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