Recent TTYDEF_LFLAG default change

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20041103111813.GB13047 at nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes:
>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:15:34PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Because if you open a serial port and it defaults to echo, you may end up in
>> an "echo-war" with the other end before you ever get a chance to call
>> ioctl and disable echoing.
>
>Well, use TTYDEF_LFLAG_NOECHO I suggest for that case and leave 
>user-visible default untouched to not break userland programs.

How many pieces of software know about TTYDEF_* outside our sourcecode ?

Most of it would be bogus I think, software should record the current
state and restore that, not mangle it with defaults.

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