getty/uugetty -- what is the difference, really?

[Larry Snyder]

bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>I've been using 'getty' rather than 'uugetty' on ESIX Rev D.  This is
>because someone told me (before I did my install) that uugetty was
>either buggy, problematic, or a security hole, I forget which.  Is
>this Esix-specific, or SYSVR3 specific?

we've always used getty for bidirectional communications (always
meens since ISC 2.02) without problems --

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