OpenStep (NeXT) and TTY modes

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

I have to ask since I did the core NeXT work.. What issues are you seeing
that adding the below 3 lines fix?

I've been using the NeXT (OpenStep 4.2 and NeXTStep 3.3 on Black hardware)
for about a year now without noticing any abnormal issues.

- Ben

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> Ok, the correct modes to add, before parsing the client-sent tty modes,
> are:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_NEXT
> 	tio.c_oflag |= ONLCR;
> 	tio.c_lflag |= ECHO;
> 	tio.c_iflag |= ICRNL;
> #endif /* HAVE_NEXT */
>
> We've tested this change and find that it fixes the problem with tty
> modes on OpenStep.
>
> Nico
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:38:24PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > OpenStep, apparently, does not initialize new pty/tty modes to a sane
> > default.
> >
> > I'm thinking this code snippet, added to tty_parse_modes() before the
> > for(;;) loop should suffice:
> >
> > #ifdef HAVE_NEXT
> > 	tio.c_oflag |= ONLCR;
> > 	tio.c_lflag |= ECHO;
> > #endif /* HAVE_NEXT */
> >
> > Also, I've noticed that "ssh -t next_host stty" gives different output
> > than an interactive session to the same NeXT... I suspect that this
> > means that the SSH client is sending a different set of tty modes to the
> > sshd on the NeXT... Is that so? Does that make sense?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nico
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