Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:15:34 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent TTYDEF_LFLAG default change Message-ID: <16110.1099480534@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:11:57 %2B0300." <20041103111157.GA12950@nagual.pp.ru>
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In message <20041103111157.GA12950@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@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.
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