Re: Question about linemode implementation...

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> Tue, 26 April 1994 20:19 UTC

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu>
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To: Steve Parker <sparker@damrak.eng.sun.com>
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In-Reply-To: Steve Parker's message of Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:43:00 -0700, <9404261743.AA12127@damrak.Eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Question about linemode implementation...
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   Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:43:00 -0700
   From: Steve Parker <sparker@damrak.Eng.Sun.COM>

   To me, it seems clear that the server would refuse to negotiate those
   options if they were in conflict with the present state of the "pty"
   set by the application.  For example, if the application has set the
   pty into "raw" mode, negotiating remote edit should probably be refused.
   (And I think I can make similar arguments about flow, trapsig and echo.)

   Is it correct that a reasonable and compliant linemode server would
   refuse mode changes in that way?

That might be one reason why a server might refuse changes.  The server
is free to refuse changes for any reason, including the fact that it
doesn't support linemode --- or perhaps the way the server is
implemented, it isn't able to switch into linemode after the connection
is set up.

						- Ted