Re: [dev] Announcing sinit - the suckless init

From: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:51:40 +0000

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:44:11PM +0100, Eckehard Berns wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:31:59PM +0000, sin wrote:
> > I just pushed a simple implementation of getty[1] to ubase. Would
> > be nice to see if that works ok with your setup (and maybe get rid of
> > fgetty ;-)).
>
> I didn't dare to ask if there was a suckless getty :) Thanks for that!
>
> I could only test it briefly. At first it seemed to work as expected.
> Then I realized that you cheated your way around asking for the
> username. On Slackware /bin/login times out after 60 seconds which will
> clutter the vt after a couple of minutes with timeout messages and login
> prompts. So it seems that getty should ask for the username first even
> if login could do it as well.

Fixed in upstream ubase. It should work ok now.
Received on Mon Feb 10 2014 - 16:51:40 CET

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