From: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:06:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051211320.4004.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Wow, the tty layer is probably the oldest piece of surviving Unix code,
so ICANON is a true religious artifact... ;-)
Alan Cox wrote:
>>>The proper word seems to be "canonize".
>>
>>Um, no -- that means `to make a saint.'
>
>
> Means both. Its actually common Unixism since 1970's and probably pre
> unix too. Even the tty layer enshrines it (there another reused
> religious word 8)) - the normal mode is ICANON
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 13:33 How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-23 14:53 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-23 16:02 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-23 16:10 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 3:39 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 3:53 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 4:16 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 4:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-24 23:06 ` Herman Oosthuysen [this message]
2003-04-27 11:14 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 4:26 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 14:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:09 ` viro
2003-04-24 15:44 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 16:06 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:47 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-27 11:09 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 15:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:33 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 15:57 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 23:25 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-25 1:39 ` Steven Cole
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