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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9term echo-disabling fix (for ssh, vncviewer)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:52:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <018801c45554$b07a37b0$07fa7d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406181606.i5IG6BW06986@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>

> Then, we must be careful to correctly deal with the case
> where we have [icanon and no echo] which is what
> ssh and vncviewer use when prompting for a password
> (shows up as: israw c- in the debug 9term output)

yup.  get _all_ the cases right.

> However, I'm the first to admit I know very little about termio(s).

well, it's a mess & i've spent far too much time fighting it.

ahh, turning off ICANON you then have to get VMIN and VTIME right iirc.

VMIN should be 1 and VTIME should be some default to mean infinite to get V7 style RAW mode (but that's not even strictly true).



      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-18 13:11 Axel Belinfante
2004-06-18 15:04 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-18 16:06   ` Axel Belinfante
2004-06-18 16:52     ` boyd, rounin [this message]

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