On 11/24/2014 1:12 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 22/11/14 04:36, Joel Sherrill wrote: >> On November 21, 2014 5:50:08 PM CST, Chris Johns<chr...@rtems.org> wrote: >>>> On 22/11/2014 1:53 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: >>>>>> On 11/21/2014 1:38 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: >>>>>>>> On 20/11/14 22:08, Joel Sherrill wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> We have different code to process these two files on login. >>>>>>>>>> Can someone point me to a standard source which says >>>>>>>>>> what is supposed to be handled in each one? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Should we really have both paths? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> One is for telnet: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue.net >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> One for the normal login: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue >>>>>>>> >>>>>> I got that from the code. What standard/RFC/etc. requires that >>>>>> they be divergent? >>>>>> >>>> None I can see. It seems a convention specific to each platform. >>>> FreeBSD >>>> has other files. >>>> >>>> If you want a common file you could use a symlink. >> The code supports different "codes" in each. I don't see why they are that >> way. >> > Ok, know I understand what you mean with different codes. I thought you > mean one code location that uses /etc/issue and one code location that > uses /etc/issue.net. > > I would not make it more complicated that necessary and use the same > format for both files. > That's what I was wondering. It would be going to make it one set of code for both file types but I would like to know what the standards or historical origin is for the difference. And hopefully it is something that is not from RTEMS related.
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