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- From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD: Dinky little socket(?) bug -- ^V as escape character?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.081047.16575@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
- References: <sand.712454840@milton> <1992Jul30.011650.5292@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 08:10:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.011650.5292@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sim@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peng-Toh Sim) writes:
- >In article <sand.712454840@milton> sand@milton.u.washington.edu (Derek Upham) writes:
- [complains that he has to press ^V twice to be interpreted in a screen session]
- >
- >
- >I believe this bug is due to misinterpretation of POSIX.1 .
- >I have seen this bug under 0.0 with screen3.2 and kermit 5a.
- >When screen3.2 or kermit is compiled with POSIX.1 termios, it
- >switches to RAW mode by resetting ICANON in c_lflags for the
- >terminal. This, however, does not disable IEXTEN under the
- >current implementation of 386bsd, so keys enabled by IEXTEN like
- >^V still gets processed. Since with screen (or kermit), you go
- >though the tty discipline twice, ^V gets processed twice.
- >Example, if you want to enter ^V itself, you have to hit it four times!!!
- >I figure this from "POSIX Programmer's Guide" by Donald Lewine.
- >However, this book does not say if the kernel should ignore IEXTEN when
- >ICANON is not set. So I don't know who's bug this is.
- >My modified version of screen3.2 and kermit disables the IEXTEN flag
- >when they switch to RAW mode so I don't see this problem.
- >
- >Can somebody who has access to the actual POSIX.1 document comment
- >on this please?
- >
- >PT
- >sim@cory.berkeley.edu
- >
- From "Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 1: System Application
- Program Interface (API) [C Language]" ("IEEE Std 1003.1 - 1990"), Chapter
- 7.1.2.4:
-
- # If IEXTEN is set,implementation-defined functions shall be recognized from the
- # input data. It is implementation defined how IEXTEN being set interacts with
- # ICANON, ISIG, IXON, or IXOFF. If IEXTEN is not set, then implementation-
- # defined functions shall not be recognized, and the corresponding input
- # characters shall be processed as described for ICANON, ISIG, IXON, or IXOFF.
-
- Typing errors are my own intellectual property 8->
-
- Christoph
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