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From: jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why does xterm get rid of controlling tty with -L?
Message-ID: <13282@jumbo.dec.com>
Date: 22 Aug 88 23:40:26 GMT
References: <3e03c551.18e92@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys)
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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I believe the right answer is "No, no one can tell you why."  The right
description of what was done there is "The code was hacked on until it
worked".

I'm sure any number of theories of what is needed and why can be generated,
and one explanation might even be correct, but I'm sceptical anyone really
understands the code fully (or even understood it when it was hacked into
existance; I sure know that Mark Vandevoorde and I didn't fully understand
at the time, and its been hacked by others since).

					- Jim Gettys