On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:01:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > However, util-linux still resets it to ^O on any architecture, > > ^O is the historical value, kernel ignores it anyway and finally, > > Linus said "Just change everybody to do the same, nobody cares > > about VDISCARD". > > Heh. Grepping for DISCARD_CHAR() shows that there literally doesn't > seem to be any user. > > I guess some user space program could care what the initial value is, > but it seems very unlikely. Quite, especially since those programs would have to run before getty gets a chance to reset the sucker to ^O...
