Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:53:46 -0800 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: samy@kerneled.org Subject: Re: The recent TIOCREMOTE removal Message-ID: <41CA6B7A.5040500@asme.org>
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Hi;
I was trying to find out what went wrong with x11-toolkits/xview (and
derived applications) and I found this thread in -current. XView is
using termios (as it should) but the TIO_REMOTE removal indeed broke
xview on Sat Jul 3 10:12:32 UTC 2004.
Patches welcome.
Pedro.
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In message <29087.62.3.32.33.1089889099.squirrel@www.kerneled.org>,
samy@kerneled.org writes:
>The changes committed with revision 1.127 of tty_pty.c and the appropriate
>changes to the ttycom.h file remove the TIOCREMOTE ioctl. The commit
>message was as follows:
> "It was added 22 years ago for emacs to use, but emacs gave up on it
> it 17 years ago."
>
>Ignoring the fact that many operating systems have TIOCREMOTE implemented
>(meaning, FreeBSD provides a nice new portability issue for now and the
>unknowing future), several ports are *already* broken due to this.
I'm only aware of two ? And I'm currently investigating them.
>This ioctl is widely implemented, and even though not a fad of any
>sort, it is used where it should be. The functionality it provides is
>of use. I think it would be feasible if someone was to roll-back the
>both sys/ttycom.h and kern/tty_pty.c
Please provide better evidence of current usage.
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