Re: Recent TTYDEF_LFLAG default change

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:41:22 +0300
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:26:15PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > Most of it would be bogus I think, software should record the current
> > state and restore that, not mangle it with defaults.
> 
> Some tty/pty-emulators can (in spirit of screen). It is not ours, it is 
> common BSD thing. Better to not make surprises and harden porter's job 
> here, really, without a reason. Inside kernel you can do anything you want 
> using TTYDEF_LFLAG_NOECHO.

More such things: getty and getty-likes (i.e. fax recievers or FIDO gates 
combined with getty). BTW, what about our getty now? It uses TTYDEF_LFLAG.

Python tty module use TTYDEF_LFLAG too:
http://pydoc.org/1.5.2/tty.html

Moreover, it is few minutes results, I even don't try to search hard.

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Received on Wed Nov 03 2004 - 13:41:25 UTC

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