From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!pat
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: getty.c - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.736
Posted: Mon Sep 20 11:47:37 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 08:05:33 1982

#R:sri-unix:-327500:uicsovax:5500026:000:287
uicsovax!pat    Sep 18 09:32:00 1982

We have found that the sleep/flush  is needed to get rid of  the garbage
that gets reflected from long unterminated tty lines (lines with terminal 
disconnected for repair or switched to differrent machine). 
That sleep(1) could probably be replaced by the "nap" system call.

Pat Kane