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Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 08:26:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:22:02AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Getty stayed the parent of that whole session "process
> > tree", which at the end of the session folded nicely back.
> > On termination of getty's child, getty itself terminated.
> 
> I'm pretty sure getty has always used exec() to replace itself with
> login(1) or a login(1) equivalent.  There's no reason for it to sit
> around holding memory.

Makes sense, yes.

Cheers
-- t

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  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-06-06 04:50 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-06 04:50 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-06 05:20 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-06-06 17:00 +0200
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      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-06 13:40 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 14:20 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-06 14:30 +0200
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          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 07:20 +0200
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