The recent TIOCREMOTE removal

From: <samy_at_kerneled.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:58:19 -0400 (EDT)
The changes committed with revision 1.127 of tty_pty.c and the appropriate
changes to the ttycom.h file remove the TIOCREMOTE ioctl. The commit
message was as follows:
   "It was added 22 years ago for emacs to use, but emacs gave up on it
    it 17 years ago."

Ignoring the fact that many operating systems have TIOCREMOTE implemented
(meaning, FreeBSD provides a nice new portability issue for now and the
unknowing future), several ports are *already* broken due to this.

This ioctl is widely implemented, and even though not a fad of any
sort, it is used where it should be. The functionality it provides is
of use. I think it would be feasible if someone was to roll-back the
both sys/ttycom.h and kern/tty_pty.c

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Samy Al Bahra <samy_at_kerneled.org>
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Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 08:58:22 UTC

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