From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261308AbTDXWsM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:48:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262763AbTDXWsM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:48:12 -0400 Received: from dsl-fl-207-34-65-6-cgy.nucleus.com ([207.34.65.6]:60249 "EHLO bluetooth.WNI.AD") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261308AbTDXWsL (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:48:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:06:21 -0600 From: Herman Oosthuysen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> <1051211320.4004.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1051211320.4004.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Apr 2003 23:00:21.0173 (UTC) FILETIME=[481D1650:01C30AB5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >