From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Sep 20 06:16:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04434 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04422; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA27085; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:14:30 -0700 (PDT) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au (Peter Wemm), uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV), phk@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, uhclem.ds3@nemesis.lonestar.org Subject: Re: bin/1037 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:55:41 +0200." <19970920125541.KG31358@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:14:30 -0700 Message-ID: <27081.874761270@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Given the extent of Frank's negative experience with the non-changed telnet and positive experiences with the changed one, I think it'd be more than reasonable to add a flag which turns it *off* and uses the settings he suggests as the default. That way you still have your escape hatch in case it causes dysfunction in some corner case yet all those Windows puppies are happy in the OOB configuration. Also, since nobody seems to care *too* much about this or we'd have settled it in less than 2 years time, why not just let Frank commit it and also take any of the potential heat if it doesn't work? That'd be the best "See, we *were* right about that default!" rebuttal of them all. ;-) Jordan > As Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > I don't see why you not just start your telnetd with `-l', instead of > > > adding another hack to it. > > > > No, this is different.. -l sets the "alwayslinemode". The 'linemode' > > variable does something else. > > Ok, explanation sold. :) But then, my vote is still to make it another > option (-L perhaps). > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)