Re: Turning COMPAT_43TTY into a binary-only compatibility

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:51:49 +0100
Ed Schouten <ed_at_fxq.nl> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> writes:
> > None of that stuff should be using sgtty.  Linux, for instance, only has
> > termios, not sgtty, so anything that runs on Linux must necessarily
> > already support termios, and it's just a matter of fixing it so it
> > doesn't insist on using sgtty instead.
> That only partially true. Linux supports termios and termio, but it's
> not hard to port termio apps to termios.

Yes, it supports both, but the former has long been deprecated in favor
of the latter, so hopefully only crufty old software should use it.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Wed Jan 30 2008 - 16:51:58 UTC

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