Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 22:21:06 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, nate@trout.sri.MT.net Cc: daveh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: slattach!!!!!!! Message-ID: <199505051221.WAA20696@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>to do a similar thing. Some how, slattach was broken when it was >brought into 2.0. I've known this for some time, but haven't had the time >or need since I got a dedicated line to track it down. The tty code >is not my area. It would be nice if someone who knows the tty code >and slattach could look to see what is happening when expect is used >with slattach. My fix for 1.1.5 was to restore the tty state from a >snapshot taken during startup. The multiple forking nature of the >current slattach makes this much for difficult, and it was a cludge >anyway. I know the tty code and slattach but not expect or chat :-). I know of several bugs, but I think they are either unrelated to the current problem or reduce it: 1) slattach no longer aborts on carrier drop if no -r command is given. Its signal handling is BAD (it does too much in the signal handler) and broke when the multiple forking stuff was added. 2) the 2.0 tty driver is not as POSIX conformant as the 1.1.5 driver. It allows the line to be reused after SIGHUPs. The 1.1.5 driver required the multiple forking stuff, or with one of David's important patches, toggling CLOCAL like the 1.1.5 slattach does. (We still haven't found a good way of making control-terminal'ness go away at the right times.) 3) Both the 1.1.5 and the 2.0 tty (sio) driver restore the tty state to a programmable default at open() time, so slattach needs to reprogram it after every open. I think the current slattach does this, although in a tangled way (after a SIGHUP it should close files and start over). Bruce
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