On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:26:24AM +0200, Werner Fink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask if there is interest on porting mingetty features
> to agetty? I've done such a port based on util-linux-2.19 to test
> it out but before I'll redo this and change the manual page for
> the current head of the git repository I'd like to ask if is an
> interest in such a port.
>
> My port would include a detection of the virtual console based
> on the ioctl TIOCMGET and also for UTF-8 support based on the
> ioctl KDGKBMODE, a chroot option, a changedir option, an autologin
> option, and some more ...
It seems a better option to wait on Sami's changes to become
part of the git repository, e.g. the long option handling
which is also part of my changes.
Werner
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