Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 07:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty(8) Message-ID: <199508130549.HAA24159@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508130053.TAA10649@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Aug 12, 95 07:53:35 pm
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As Peter da Silva wrote: > > J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >What about a rewrite? How to add the missing functionality? I'd > Opinion: > > You could do worse than to simply clone the System V format. Yes, it's > System V... but it is something that people are familiar with. That's > got to be worth something... I've already thought about this, but: o i'd like to keep the current name; having two different names sounding rather similar always caused me grief; o i always hated SysV's habit of requiring looong lines, they should be `backslashable'; o i don't think the SysV format is a superset of the gettytab, i think things like the banner message cannot be defined there. So i came to the conclusion that it's best to stick with the current format, but allow for the long stty keywords in it. This should ease the transition, while giving the full power of the termios capabilities to the admin. I haven't checked how much work this would require to parse however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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