What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Dieter Muller
dworkin at Solbourne.COM
Wed Jul 5 12:03:40 AEST 1989
I'd *really* like a sane tty driver. However, lacking that, at least
generalize the concept of ``this key generates a SIGTSTP'' to ``this
key generates a user-specified signal.'' Kinda like TOPS-20's tty
driver, where you could do the equivalent of:
^T -> SIGUSR1
^A -> SIGALRM
^Z -> SIGTSTP
^E -> SIGTSTP
^C -> SIGTERM
^B -> SIGKILL
(Yeah, I know that's not how it really worked, but you could fake it
without much effort, and this would be even more general. RMS has
already said GNU isn't for `little' machines, so a lookup table in
the tty driver wouldn't be too bad.)
Dieter
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