Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases Message-ID: <604@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:37:07 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.604 Posted: Sun Aug 11 00:37:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 00:16:26 EDT References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 Xref: linus net.micro.att:465 net.unix-wizards:11513 > > 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? Stty/gtty are there for binary compatibility, not for use in new code. Thus it doesn't matter if stty/gtty are removed during porting.