Re: [PATCH v2] agetty: don't put the VC into canonical mode

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Dne 19. 10. 18 v 8:09 Lubomir Rintel napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 09:40 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:41:49AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>>> Seems like zero lflags do the job just fine on a Linux VT. Reset it
>>> to
>>> canonical mode before running login.
>>
>> What about Del/Backspace keys when user is typing login name? :-)
> 
> They seem to work the same as they used to?
> 
> From Stanislav's message I notice that there's supposed to be some
> problem with them -- I'm not seeing that. Either the patch does
> something different or I'm not looking at the right thing.
> 
> (I haven't looked at Stanislav's patch -- but I surely intend to give
> it a try.)
I am writing about non-canonical mode. It was partially used in past.

Now agetty uses canonical mode. It handles Backspace by itself, but it
makes impossible to implement "stop reloads when at least one character
is entered". So we will have to switch to a non-canonical mode.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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