Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Where Goeth the Line-editing? (was Re: Strangeness in shell) Message-ID: <2345@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 8 Aug 89 17:53:02 GMT References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <13303@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <8055@mtune.ATT.COM> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 5 >This is *exactly* what a streams module does in SVR3 and beyond. And what a line discipline did/does in other UNIX releases, except that, as I noted elsewhere, the Multics stuff didn't live in the kernel, while line disciplines and streams modules do.