Recent TTYDEF_LFLAG default change

Paul van der Zwan paulz at vanderzwan.org
Wed Nov 3 10:46:35 PST 2004


On 3-nov-04, at 17:19, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> 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.

That seems to be cause by 'stty sane' being broken by the TTYDEF_LFLAG 
change.
So even 'essential' programs in the base system may have been affected 
by this change.

	Paul

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