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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:39:24 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
Cc:        phk@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, uhclem.ds3@nemesis.lonestar.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1037
Message-ID:  <19970920113924.CS57824@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <m0xCFSf-000tydC@nemesis.lonestar.org>; from Frank Durda IV on Sep 19, 1997 21:39:00 -0600
References:  <m0xCFSf-000tydC@nemesis.lonestar.org>

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As Frank Durda IV wrote:

> Uh, pity you did that without asking.  This item has not been fixed,
> despite me providing a one line patch that fixed this and a handfull of
> other open PRs (at least two not from me) back in March.

>  -----FIX BEGINS-----
>  *** telnetd.c.00	Sun Jan 12 15:56:33 1997
>  --- telnetd.c	Wed Feb 26 16:07:15 1997
>  ***************
>  *** 179,184 ****
>  --- 179,187 ----
>    
>    	progname = *argv;
>    
>  + 	linemode=1;			/*Default to mode that all brands
>  + 					  of telnets handle correctly*/
>  + 
>    #ifdef CRAY
>    	/*
>    	 * Get number of pty's before trying to process options,
>  -----FIX ENDS-----

I don't see why you not just start your telnetd with `-l', instead of
adding another hack to it.

It's arguable whether we should start it with -l by default, since so
many telnet clients in the world are apparently broken.  But you've
got the option, so why don't you use it in the first place?

-- 
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. ;-)



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