From: cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern) Subject: /dev/tty (Whatis it for?) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:21:38 GMT
I am having a program with serial logins on my machine. I am running SLS
1.03. I have a good connection between the two, and when I try to connect
the to together it will get as far as the Password: prompt then stop. So I
ran strace on getty and found for some reason that the login program switches
ttys from /dev/ttys2 (COM3) to /dev/tty. When this file is removed the login
process continues as normal. But this file (/dev/tty) is required when loading
xterm up under X-windows. I have a few questions. What is the reason for this
file (/dev/tty)? The only way that I can find around it is to patch login
program, is there another?
chris.
i
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