From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6590 invoked from network); 22 Mar 1997 17:45:46 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Mar 1997 17:45:46 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15569; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:39:35 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:39:35 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199703221742.MAA00223@hzoli.home> Subject: Re: -L option for ttyctl To: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:42:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <13372.199703221637@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Mar 22, 97 04:37:04 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"MliXy2.0.9p3.Mb1Dp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3018 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > This is an updated form of patch 719, which didn't get into the baseline > at the time. I still think that -L options should be changed to -p as required by POSIX. These patches did not get into the baseline for exatly this reason. Unfortunately -p is already used for other purposes by some builtins so it would introduce incompatible changes :-(. Zoltan