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.