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Re: My console rewrite is finally available

On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 09:13:31PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>In the current implementation, a process in notty mode can't set
>all termios parameters to its console through one of file
>descriptors associated with it. It have to use the descripter 1
>or 2 for c_oflags, and the descripter 0 for c_lflags and c_iflags.
>
>Thus `less' can't work properly in notty mode because it use the
>descripter 2 for setting the console to `raw mode' and it fails.

Sigh.  Ok.  I understand this.  It'll require some thought to fix.

-chris