two irix patches

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote:

> First, does anyone know why the following was added in the first place?
> It purposely strips the tty off of tty names (e.g., ttyq1 becomes q1)
> before sticking them in wtmp. IRIX then has no idea what terminal people
> are attached to, causing commands like wall to fail (as they try to open
> /dev/q1). Maybe this should be version specific?
> 
revision 1.26                                                           
date: 2000/09/30 10:34:44;  author: djm;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -4    
 - (djm) Irix strips "/dev/tty" from [uw]tmp entries (other systems only
   strip "/dev/"). Fix loginrec.c based on patch from Alain St-Denis    
   <Alain.St-Denis at ec.gc.ca>                                            


No idea what version Alain is running for SGI.  

- Ben