Recent TTYDEF_LFLAG default change

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Wed Nov 3 08:19:16 PST 2004


Andrey Chernov said:

> 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.

I agree. My terminal under bash still gets messed up after running
portupgrade.




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