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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs. SVR4 typehead flush after tty mode change
Message-ID: <14148@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 90 04:11:25 GMT
References: <14028@smoke.BRL.MIL> <15042@cbmvax.commodore.com> <4187@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4187@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>The fix:
>OK, now *after* you've applied the fix, try the following:
>	Fire up the (S5R4) C shell.

It sems to me that a bug was introduced in the kernel solely in order
to avoid fixing the C shell, which is clearly screwed up in its input
handling.  In interactive command-line editing mode, a shell should
read() only 1 character at a time.