mgetty and pppd (was Re: Playing nice...)

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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 07:55:38AM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> Once I got mgetty and minicom running parallen on my modem :(
> In this situation was used commandline:
> 
>   killall vgetty; minicom

Very bad style, and won't work anyway, if you have a locking problem -
vgetty will restart immediately after being killed, so if the lock was
wrong before, it will be wrong afterwards.

> I can't repeat this but I suppose that locking isn't 100% proof.

There was one minor bug (killing mgetty in exactly the right moment while
another program had the lock could lead to accidently deleting the foreign
lock), but that one has been fixed for 1.1.20.  [If you don't send signals
to mgetty/vgetty, that bug will never hit, so it isn't an issue here].

gert
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