Hope you can help me giving the information about that possibility.
TIA,
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>
> > Most modern UNIX's will give you the login prompt again and again until
>
> Yes you are right and that IS posix compliant.
>
> > you actually type something in. This is a feature. (I don't recall POSIX
> > covering this, does anyone else know?) And for his application, what
>
> Yes.
>
> > difference would it make if it did break other scripts? If it were an
> > option everybody could break which set of scripts/behaviours they wish.
> >
> > And honestly any script that doesn't cope with both behaviours seems
> > ill-conceived.
>
> I guess that was my point. Make your script deal with it.
>
> > > Why do you have SOME enter characters? Just make the script go into a
> > > loop hitting enter UNTIL it sees "username:"
>
> Right.
>
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