On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:09:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:31:03AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really > > > rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind > > > of cleanup. > > > > But... but... but what shall we do without OLCUC?!? > > > > I guess sending these features to the pasture would be nice even in > > mainstream TTY. Probably even without a Kconfig option to restore them. > > Thing is... those arcane features don't take much code at all: > > if (O_OLCUC(tty)) > c = toupper(c); > > That's it. I didn't make the minitty code 5x smaller just by omitting > those. ;-) Except, those two lines have two bugs: * it mangles most non-ASCII (kernel's toupper() hard-codes ISO-8859-1 which no one uses anymore) * it mangles a number of ANSI codes, making them unusable on any vt100ish terminal (ie, any post-1980) I just happened to send an April Fools pull request (https://github.com/kilobyte/linux.git runes) in which the first commit fixes these: https://github.com/kilobyte/linux/commit/268cde7c6dde54fcbc81df68d66b2389d77d01f2 Even though it's a real fix (unlike the subsequent fun), guess why I'm not sending it to Greg and Jiri... -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Meow! ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Collisions shmolisions, let's see them find a collision or second ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ preimage for double rot13! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
