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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Subject: Re: bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab
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The following reply was made to PR bin/56325; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: mats@snowbee.dyns.cx, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:47:54 +0400

 On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:04:01PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > I looked at what the various combinations of parity did when I wrote
 > thos lines in gettytab.  I haven't looked at them recently (i never
 > use anything except np).  Perhaps changing getty to termios canonicalized
 > the parity support.
 
 Indeed, it was rev. 1.6 of subr.c that introduced the new behaviour
 of the parity flags along with using termios instead of the old BSD
 interface to terminals.
 
 I believe that people use just np nowadays, so the question is
 whether the old behaviour of parity flag combinations is worth
 restoring.  How do you think?
 
 -- 
 Yar