In message <20041103111157.GA12950_at_nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes: >TTYDEF_LFLAG have ECHO* in it for years, and it is user-visible, some >programs may use it (see recent stty/key.c hacking). > >Why it was needed to remove ECHO* from here just to make yet one >non-standard, non cross-BSD compatible and unknown TTYDEF_LFLAG_ECHO? Because if you open a serial port and it defaults to echo, you may end up in an "echo-war" with the other end before you ever get a chance to call ioctl and disable echoing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Nov 03 2004 - 10:15:36 UTC
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