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Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>, cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:34:03 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.
--- Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
> I'm going to maintain the cygwin ports of init and agetty packages.
Thanks!
> You can get the source code and binary packages at
> http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/.
Usually we send full URLs to the packages...
> agetty allows to login into Windows
> NT box via a serial cable connected to a com port.
I'll have to grab a cable tomorrow to make sure this actually
works. Should agetty require 'sysvinit' and 'login'?
I'd also like to see some information in /usr/doc/Cygwin/agetty*README
about Windows-vs-Unix devices. I'm assuming /dev/ttyS0 == COM1?
(I've never used my serial ports in Cygwin.)
> category: System
> requires: cygwin cygrunsrv
> sdesc: "A System-V Init Clone"
> ldesc: "Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is
> to create processes from a script stored in the file
> /etc/inittab (see inittab(5)). This file usually has
> entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
> users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes
> required by any particular system."
While I really like the idea of having an init running, I don't
think that simply selecting the package should make it install as a
service with the postinstall script (!). You might take a look at
how Corinna did sshd.
Also, the cygutils package already includes /usr/bin/last.exe
but I'm not sure what to do about this since I bet Chuck took it from
some sysvinit package and wouldn't mind moving it to its canonical
location once the sysvinit package gets together.
Some other questions that come to mind:
--any thoughts on more support for runlevels in inittab?
--does this work on Win9x/ME?
--can this init actaully spawn other processes/services? If so, I
could see it becoming very central to many cygwin installations
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