Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 04:49:06 -0700 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/stty extern.h gfmt.c key.c print.c stty.c stty.h Message-ID: <20000428044906.C17180@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000428044403.B17180@freebsd.org>; from ache@freebsd.org on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:44:03AM -0700 References: <200004272131.OAA15690@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004281529170.2967-100000@alphplex.bde.org> <20000428044403.B17180@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:44:03AM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Controlling the drainwait time is a standard feature of comcontrol(8). > > Someone named ache implemented it back in 1995 :-). I think the division > > of tty control into standard features in stty and nonstandard features > > in comcontrol is correct. > > I disagree. There is no harm to implement it here too, better to have all > tty-related stuff in one place to see whole picture on what happens with > tty. I.e. whole state of all things can be changed. It is not > human-oriented to have two separate programs forcing user to join their > states in mind. Yet more especially about 'comcontrol' name. Drainwait in general have no strict relation to 'COMs' only although was implementeed for them initially. It is related to 'TTYs' (I see hanging connections on TCP links), so must be controlled from program which control general ttys, i.e. stty -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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