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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:33:38 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Subject:   Re: TIOCSTI possibly broken under 8.0 ?
Message-ID:  <20100104173338.GA75363@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <E1NRq8Q-0000aC-Sa@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1NRq8Q-0000aC-Sa@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:50:26PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> TIOCSTI appears to be broken - the code attached at the bottom
> works fine in 7.x but fails in 8.0. What the code is attempting to
> do is to print a prompt for text input, along with an initial
> value for that text which can be edited by the user. I am assuming
> this is a bug, and not incorrect usage of TIOCSTI, but evven if not
> it is still a regression compared to 7.x.
> 
> The reason I am intested in this is that this is the code which
> is used by /usr/bin/mail to allow the headers to be edited in an
> email, so this does break a very basic piece of the base system.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -pete.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/ttycom.h>
> 
> char *src = "hello world";
> 
> int
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>         char ch;
>         int c;
>         char *cp;
>         char x[512];
> 
>         puts("Enter text: ");
>         fflush(stdout);
> 
>         cp = src == NULL ? "" : src;
>         while ((c = *cp++) != '\0') {
>                 ch = c;
>                 ioctl(0, TIOCSTI, &ch);
>         }
> 
>         fgets(x, 511, stdin);
>         printf("We got: %s\n", x);
>         fflush(stdout);
>         return 0;
> }

Adding Ed Schouten to the thread, who will probably be able to shed
some light on things.  :-)

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
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