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From: freedman@mips2.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: rex (rexd)
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.121105.9378@mips2.cr.bull.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 12:11:05 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
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  I hope this is the correct group - my apologies if not.
  
  I have a question about the design of the *rex - on* protocol
  The rpc calls to fire up an interactive program remotely are
  RPC_START (which forks and execs etc) and then an RPC_MODES
  which fiddles with the modes of the pty-tty set up. Now, if
  the program you wish to start up gets to the tty and fiddles
  with it before the RPC_MODES call does you can get some 
  strange terminal behavior.(I see this behavior regularly). 
  The question I have is this - Am I missing something?
  Is there a reason things are done this way? (yes I know
  there are fixes)

                               Jerry Freedman,Jr