ginsburg@ginosko.samsung.com (Scott Ginsburg) (09/20/89)
I'm a new X user and am doing some experimenting with xterm. I would like to be able to fork/exec an xterm that runs a program in that window, and, I want to force the xterm's stdin to be from a pipe descriptor that I dup2'ed before I exec. The problem is that xterm does a getty() and wipes out my stdin plumbing. How do I accomplish what I want to do? Thanks, Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Ginsburg WA2CJT Voice: 508-685-7200 FAX: 508-685-4940 Samsung Software America Internet: ginsburg@samsung.com Andover, MA
ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) (09/21/89)
In article <3609@ginosko.samsung.com> ginsburg@ginosko.samsung.com (Scott Ginsburg) writes:
I'm a new X user and am doing some experimenting with xterm. I would like
to be able to fork/exec an xterm that runs a program in that window, and,
I want to force the xterm's stdin to be from a pipe descriptor that I
dup2'ed before I exec. The problem is that xterm does a getty() and wipes
out my stdin plumbing. How do I accomplish what I want to do?
Under X11R3 there is a program called xdm which can be used instead of
getty. There is also a way to use xinit in place of getty from the
/etc/ttytab file. Check the manual pages for both xdm and xinit.
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