linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:51:15 +0000
From:	Howard Chu <hyc@...as.com>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@...r.Kernel.ORG>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support

Howard Chu wrote:
> Peter Hurley wrote:
>> On 01/19/2015 02:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
>>> The fact that EXTPROC can be manually unset is by design. Quoting
>>> from the original again:
>>>
>>>> stty.diff:
>>>>      This file contains the changes needed for the stty(1) program
>>>>      to report on the current status of the TS_EXTPROC bit.  It also
>>>>      allows the user to turn on/off the TS_EXTPROC bit.  This is useful
>>>>      because it allows the user to say "stty -extproc", and the
>>>>      LINEMODE option will be automatically disabled, and saying "stty
>>>>      extproc" will re-enable the LINEMODE option.
>>
>> This option is not supported by gnu coreutils.
>
> OK. It's in *BSD and Minix. Looks like I never wrote a patch for
> coreutils for this last time around.

Wrote it, just never submitted it.

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