[OE-core] sysvinit-inittab: Make sure new shell from start_getty gets a controlling tty

[Yong, Jonathan]

On 12/27/2016 14:47, Yong, Jonathan wrote:
> Without exec, the processes from the new shell do not get a ctty:
> 
> 	root at intel-corei7-64:~# ps -x | grep getty
> 	  755 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 	  791 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh /bin/start_getty 115200 ttyS0
> 	  804 ?        S      0:00 grep getty
> 
> In particular, the openssh client fails:
> 
> 	root at intel-corei7-64:~# ssh -v <target>
> 	<truncated>
> 	debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address
> 	Host key verification failed.
> 
> This patch fixes those errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yong, Jonathan <jonathan.yong at intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty
> index e3d052a..ab238f6 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  #!/bin/sh
>  if [ -c /dev/$2 ]
>  then 
> -	/sbin/getty -L $1 $2 $3
> +	exec /sbin/getty -L $1 $2 $3
>  fi
> 

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