From: david@ods.com (David Engel) Subject: Re: Q: What is /usr/bin/doshell good for ??? Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:18:11 GMT
Wolfram Schlickenrieder (schli@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: The subject says it all: I found /usr/bin/doshell, but I
: didn't find any manpage for it. What the hack does it do?
doshell forks and execs a program (typically a shell) on another tty.
When you boot directly to a root shell without using init/getty/login,
ala HJ's bootable rootdisks and the early Linux rootdisks, doshell is
the only way to start a shell on another virtual console.
David
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