In message <20000426033143.30EEBDF@proven.weird.com>, Greg A. Woods writes:
>Getty is just a daemon that happens to monitor a port and facilitate the
>initial parameter configurations and interactions in setting up a
>connection.

Long ago, I used to use an SVR4 system, where all the gettys on the system
were condensed into a single instance of "ttymon", which knew how to multiplex
serial port potential-logins.

I think this is one of the rare cases where the SVR4 solution was cleaner
than the BSD solution.

-s