29 Aug
2018
29 Aug
'18
2:43 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
I'm pretty sure the addition of "stty
-f" and "stty -F" is a fairly late
innovation. i.e., it wasn't there when Linux "copied" stty's user
interface.
Yeah, I suppose that's it, but in true GNU style they also have
"--file=/dev/XXX", so why not "-f"?
In BSD 4.3 and early Linux (which is when I still was
maintaining
Linux's serial driver) you always had to do:
stty dec < /dev/ttyS0
Really, why did those young whippersnappers had to add an option, when
redirection worked perfectly well and required one less character to
type? :-)
Ah, but then the shell does the opening, which might not be the mode that
you wanted; I was doing some funky I/O redirection at the time as well.
-- Dave