From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 12 23:21:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA12646 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:21:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA12628 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:20:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25249; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 08:20:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA14394; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 08:20:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA24159; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 07:49:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508130549.HAA24159@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: getty(8) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 07:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508130053.TAA10649@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Aug 12, 95 07:53:35 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1157 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter da Silva wrote: > > J Wunsch 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. ;-)