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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:04:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        grog@lemis.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What happens to terminal settings on last close?
Message-ID:  <199511072304.AAA24466@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511071326.OAA05257@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 7, 95 02:26:21 pm

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As Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> This is different from the standard BSD behaviour, which leaves the
> terminal flags the way they are on the last close, but it's the same
> as System V behaviour.  Is it intentional or accidental?  What do you
> think it should do?

Read the paragraph about ``initial'' and ``lock'' devices in sio(4).

They're mainly a workaround for poor software (like getty(8)).

-- 
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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