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From: dworkin@Solbourne.COM (Dieter Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Message-ID: <1549@salgado.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 89 02:03:40 GMT
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Reply-To: dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller)
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I'd *really* like a sane tty driver.  However, lacking that, at least
generalize the concept of ``this key generates a SIGTSTP'' to ``this
key generates a user-specified signal.''  Kinda like TOPS-20's tty
driver, where you could do the equivalent of:

		^T -> SIGUSR1
		^A -> SIGALRM
		^Z -> SIGTSTP
		^E -> SIGTSTP
		^C -> SIGTERM
		^B -> SIGKILL

(Yeah, I know that's not how it really worked, but you could fake it
 without much effort, and this would be even more general.  RMS has
 already said GNU isn't for `little' machines, so a lookup table in
 the tty driver wouldn't be too bad.)

Dieter