Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 11:51:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: termios'ed getty Message-ID: <199605081851.LAA26532@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605072129.XAA11587@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 7, 96 11:29:29 pm
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> Bruce reminded me of the ugliness of the V7/oldBSD <-> termios > conversion code, and of our huge previous problems with the kernel > equivalent of this. > > So now the US$ 4.99 question: what do people think about completely > ripping out support for the obsolete V7/oldBSD-style sgtty options in > getty? Does anybody know somebody who's really using all these > f0/f1/f2 flags in gettytab? > > If nobody objects within reasonable time, i consider removing all the > compat cruft that's no longer needed. I thought IBCS2 and SCO Xenix binary compatability would require the code to stay, even if BSD itself no longer used it. I would recommend *against* ripping it out wholesale. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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