29 Aug
2018
29 Aug
'18
9:23 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:06:05AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
What really blew my gasket is that "stty -f" on *BSD is "stty -F" on
Penguin/OS, despite them copying every other flag.
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.
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? :-)
- Ted