Wierd crankiness update

[Darin Johnson <darin@connectnet.com>]

Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked
it a bit further.  It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that
it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up.

Symptoms:
  $ echo howdy > /dev/tty
  $ cat /dev/tty
  howdy
  $ cat /dev/tty
  howdy
  $

That is, the first echo has no output, but each successive cat will
print the output.  This is contrary to a well running unix system,
where the first echo will print to the tty, and a cat /dev/tty will
block.

I've verified this under 2.1.55 and 2.0.30.  I have a mix of hamm and bo.
Further hints? 


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