Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: DecServer 200/300 puts us into PASSALL mode sometimes
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.180637.8932@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
References: <10916@rama.UUCP> <1990Nov8.070438.6592@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <15721@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 18:06:37 GMT
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>> Any program on recent Ultrix that does "stty raw" sets the port to PASSALL.  
>> This includes the getty running at login time that reads your userid.
>
>In 99 out of 100 cases this is the correct behavior - to support unix
>"raw" mode semantics, the server must **temporarily** enter passall
>mode.  Since servers are not hard-wired terminal, there may be a few
>cases where this doesn't give the intended result, but you break a
>lot more stuff by not having it be the **default** behavior.

I agree, but in that case don't we want PASSALL to *really* pass
everything?  As things stand, BREAK still gets you out.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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