bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab

[Bruce Evans]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56325; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc: mats at snowbee.dyns.cx, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:14:29 +1000 (EST)

 On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 
 > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:04:01PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > > I looked at what the various combinations of parity did when I wrote
 > > thos lines in gettytab.  I haven't looked at them recently (i never
 > > use anything except np).  Perhaps changing getty to termios canonicalized
 > > the parity support.
 >
 > Indeed, it was rev. 1.6 of subr.c that introduced the new behaviour
 > of the parity flags along with using termios instead of the old BSD
 > interface to terminals.
 >
 > I believe that people use just np nowadays, so the question is
 > whether the old behaviour of parity flag combinations is worth
 > restoring.  How do you think?
 
 Not having it is OK with me.  I used just np back when I wrote those
 lines in gettytab :-).
 
 Bruce