termio: revise macOS-specific .hushlogin note (#5212)

login(1)'s .hushlogin logic was "fixed" in macOS Sonoma 14.4, so this
comment (and our workaround) is only relevant for versions earlier than
that.

The relevant change to login/login.c is part of system_cmds-979.100.8.

> login.c: look for .hushlogin in home directory (112854361)

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1bca46ecc5
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https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macOS/tree/macos-144
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Mitchell Hashimoto
2025-01-20 10:10:34 -08:00
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@ -971,12 +971,12 @@ const Subprocess = struct {
// which we may not want. If we specify "-l" then we can avoid
// this behavior but now the shell isn't a login shell.
//
// There is another issue: `login(1)` only checks for ".hushlogin"
// in the working directory. This means that if we specify "-l"
// then we won't get hushlogin honored if its in the home
// directory (which is standard). To get around this, we
// check for hushlogin ourselves and if present specify the
// "-q" flag to login(1).
// There is another issue: `login(1)` on macOS 14.3 and earlier
// checked for ".hushlogin" in the working directory. This means
// that if we specify "-l" then we won't get hushlogin honored
// if its in the home directory (which is standard). To get
// around this, we check for hushlogin ourselves and if present
// specify the "-q" flag to login(1).
//
// So to get all the behaviors we want, we specify "-l" but
// execute "bash" (which is built-in to macOS). We then use