TIOCSTI vs SunOS 4.x
Root Boy Jim
rbj at uunet.UU.NET
Thu Mar 28 11:51:54 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar23.081311.10785 at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
? I find that using TIOCSTI to push back the literal-next character is
? broken. On real Berkeley, doing this does what one would expect:
? the next character typed is literal-nexted. On SunOS 3.5, it works
? the same way. But under releases 4.0.3, 4.1, and 4.1.1, at least,
? doing this causes the pushed-back literal-next to quote itself
? somehow, rather than quoting the next character typed.
Sounds like they fixed a bug. My preference would be for STI to
push a character onto the CANONICAL QUEUE. I know what I want
my program to see, why should I have to worry what state
the user or tty are in?
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