Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!kitty!peter
From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases
Message-ID: <281@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:08:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: kitty.281
Posted: Thu Aug  8 14:08:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:45:34 EDT
References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 13
Xref: watmath net.micro.att:417 net.unix-wizards:14251

> >> With respect to the discussion about the change from stty(2) to ioctl(2),
> >> yes, stty is no longer included in official System V Release 2
> >> documentation, but it is still there in the kernal (it calls ioctl).
> >
> >If it's there it should be documented or porters will eat it. What are the
> >parameters & structures this version accepts? V6 or V7?
> 
> It is V6, unfortunately.  I was very disappointed when I found this out, and
> promptly upgraded it to V7.

Well if they'd document this & make sure it doesn't go away I'd drop any
possible objection to the current ioctl. It's a lot more powerful, but for
simple stuff (like setting rawmode) it's too complex.