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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: zefram@fysh.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:12:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109231812.f8NICIt20979@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1001266380.13783.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1001266380.13783.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>

> Theoretically every program should be able to determine which erase
> character to accept by looking at terminfo,

Rubbish. Programs get their erase characters from termios(3).

> One of the programs that exhibits the ^H/^? problem is the tty
> line discipline in the Linux kernel.

Read man pages for stty(1) and tset(1).

-- Pete

       reply	other threads:[~2001-09-23 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1001266380.13783.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-09-23 18:12 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-09-23 22:12 [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour zefram
2001-09-24  0:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24  2:17   ` zefram
2001-09-24  1:25 ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-23 21:26 zefram
2001-09-23 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-23  2:26 zefram
2001-09-23 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-23 20:41   ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 21:50     ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24  9:22       ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 22:57     ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-24  6:45 ` Kai Henningsen

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