Re: [PATCH] termios.3: note an XTABS alpha issue

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Hello Eugene,

On 04/22/2018 07:14 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
> * man3/termios.3 (.B TABDLY): Reference to the BUGS section.
> (.SH BUGS): New section.  Describe an issue on alpha where the XTABS
> macro was defined to a value outside TABDLY mask.

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man3/termios.3 | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/termios.3 b/man3/termios.3
> index 57f916e..1bc8add 100644
> --- a/man3/termios.3
> +++ b/man3/termios.3
> @@ -241,7 +241,10 @@ or
>  .TP
>  .B TABDLY
>  Horizontal tab delay mask.
> -Values are \fBTAB0\fP, \fBTAB1\fP, \fBTAB2\fP, \fBTAB3\fP (or \fBXTABS\fP).
> +Values are \fBTAB0\fP, \fBTAB1\fP, \fBTAB2\fP, \fBTAB3\fP (or \fBXTABS\fP,
> +but see the
> +.B BUGS
> +section).
>  A value of TAB3, that is, XTABS, expands tabs to spaces
>  (with tab stops every eight columns).
>  [requires
> @@ -1085,6 +1088,19 @@ behaves like
>  .\" libc4.7.6, libc5, glibc for unix: duration in ms.
>  .\" glibc for bsd: duration in us
>  .\" glibc for sunos4: ignore duration
> +.SH BUGS
> +.\" kernel 77e5bff1640432f28794a00800955e646dcd7455
> +.\" glibc 573963e32ffac46d9891970ddebde2ac3212c5c0
> +On alpha, Linux before 4.16 (and glibc before 2.28) had
> +.B XTABS
> +value different from
> +.B TAB3
> +and it was ignored by the
> +.B N_TTY
> +line discipline code of the tty driver as a result
> +(as it wasn't a part of the
> +.B TABDLY
> +mask).
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR reset (1),
>  .BR setterm (1),
> 


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