.TH TTYS 5 "18 July 1983"
ttys \- terminal initialization data
program and specifies which terminal special files are to have
a process created for them so that people can log in.
The first character of a line in the
file is either `0' or `1'. If the first character on the line is a `0', the
program ignores that line. If the first character on the line is a `1', the
program creates a login process for that line.
The second character on each line is used as an argument to
which performs such tasks as baud-rate recognition, reading the login name,
For normal lines, the character is `0';
other characters can be used, for example, with hard-wired terminals
where speed recognition is unnecessary or which have special characteristics.
will have to be fixed in such cases.)
The remainder of the line is the terminal's entry in the device directory, /dev.
gettytab(5), init(8), getty(8), login(1)