POSIX bashing (Was Re: Retaining file permissions)
Greg A. Woods
woods at eci386.uucp
Fri Mar 15 09:22:02 AEST 1991
In article <9090 at sail.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl at sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:
> In article <1991Mar07.073936.12552 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> >In article <3419 at unisoft.UUCP> greywolf at unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:
> >>It's truly a pity that System V has more marketing clout; BSD is just SO
> >>much more usable.
Hmmm.... That just depends on who you are, and what you can do!
> >In what way? On kithrup, I have job control, command-line editing (I use
> >ksh), networking (still useful even though kithrup is the only machine it
> >can connect to 8-)), and a few other nifty-keen things. I ... know of some
> >other useful things coming out, but I can't comment on them.
> Why??? I can still backspace over my prompt......
>[....]
> And yes, although it does have job control, it doesn't have the
> NEWER tty driver that handles things like my complaint graciously......
(It has an even newer tty driver called termio(7) which is better than
tty(4) or newtty(4)! :-)
Ah, maybe you missed the importance of one thing Sean said above. He
uses ksh, which doesn't need newtty(4). [Yes, I know this means you
only have those features while at the shell prompt.]
Besides, I think there are some versions of termio(7) with newtty-like
line disciplines. If not, you could write one instead of complaining
(or goad someone else into writing one! :-). On V.4 it's only a
STREAMS module!
Besides, user-interface extras like newtty are not really appropriate
for a specification like POSIX.
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Greg A. Woods
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