Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3
Message-ID: <7581@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 29 Mar 88 14:01:11 GMT
References: <12690@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12690@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>   From: Doug Gwyn  <gwyn@brl-smoke.arpa>
>   >   "script" for recording terminal session
>   "Script" screws up the application running under it sometimes.  It
>   could be implemented almost trivially with STREAMS.  Somebody should
>   do so.
>Interesting. Please elaborate.

Elaborate on what?  The screw-up is that certain operations do not
work right on ptys.  A streams-based implementation of "script" was
sent to me by Norman Wilson; it consisted of a few lines of shell
script.  The only thing not working was signal propagation to the
correct process group, because the Bourne shell doesn't have a way
to manipulate that.  A translation to C would also be only a few
lines and could solve the signal problem.