docs/82296: ttys(5) man page misleads about use for non-getty processes

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR docs/82296; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Chris Lightfoot <chris at ex-parrot.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/82296: ttys(5) man page misleads about use for non-getty processes
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:55:34 +0300

 On 2006-04-08 18:28, Chris Lightfoot <chris at ex-parrot.com> wrote:
 >On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:09:32AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 >>On 2005-06-15 21:44, Chris Lightfoot <chris at ex-parrot.com> wrote:
 >>> The ttys(5) man page states in respect of each line of /etc/ttys,
 >>>
 >>>      The first field is normally the name of the terminal special file as it
 >>>      is found in /dev.  However, it can be any arbitrary string when the asso-
 >>>      ciated command is not related to a tty.
 >>>
 >>> However, this is not true -- the new_session command in init.c will
 >>> drop any /etc/ttys line whose first field does not give the name of a
 >>> file in /dev which can be opened: (line 937 et seq)
 >>
 >> Is this still true on the 5.X branch?  I've just tested on CURRENT and
 >> the following entry worked as expected, even though I certainly don't
 >> have a /dev/nproc device node:
 >>
 >>     nproc "/root/script" unknown on secure
 >
 > hmm. The machine where I encountered the problem is
 > 5.2.1-RELEASE. I haven't tried on anything subsequent.
 
 Good enough.  Thanks for following up so fast.
 
 I believe 5.2.1-RELEASE was a developer-preview release, and many
 things have changed since then.  If you (or anyone else, for that
 matter) test this with a newer release, i.e. 5-STABLE or one of
 the 6.X series, please let me know with a followup :-)
 
 - Giorgos