On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 15:08 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > 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. Yes, so am I. > 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. I've submitted a patch that does that, and my understanding is that so did you (I didn't yet take a look -- sorry. I definitely intend to). I just remarked that I haven't noticed a problem with character erase. I have no idea why. Lubo
