Messages in this thread | | | Subject | dynamic VT code | From | Matt Hawkins <> | Date | Fri, 04 Apr 1997 07:05:46 +1000 |
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I had this thought while browsing through the 2.1.31 patches.. I know it's not new and there are userspace programs around that perform similar functions, but anyway it'd be nice to have the virtual terminals auto- matically spawn a getty/login process if one doesn't exist on it when switched to. (Yes, I'm lazy and don't want 64 getty processes hanging around doing nothing apart from taking up space in /etc/inittab and the process table) Again, I recall a program called dynamic-vc or something similar which I found a year or two ago on sunsite.. does that even work with the new kernels? It included a small kernel patch and a daemon that would respond to kernel requests of a vt switch - I think it'd be fairly trivial to just stick the whole thing into the vt code. Now, on my system at least, pressing Alt-RightArrow will cycle to the next vt - should this spawn a new session (which would then involve "reaping" idle login processes on these ttys) or should it just cycle through the currently _active_ vt's? Is this function even wanted in the kernel, or would it be better left to a userspace program?
-- Matt
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