GNU bug report logs - #25398
stty: bug or feature?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Dave B <g8kbv <at> uku.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 25398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 25398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>, 
 g8kbv <at> uku.co.uk
Cc: 25398-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25398: stty: bug or feature?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:16:47 +0100

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 08/01/17 20:08, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 08/01/17 18:14, Dave B wrote:
>>> Would it be possible "one day" for stty to parse the command line args,
>>> and only open the port when all the specified parameters are actually in
>>> force?
>>
>> That would be better. It's even mentioned as a FIXME:
>> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/229431d/src/stty.c#L1182-L1185
>
> Attached patch does that.

Wondered if that FIXME was mine, and it appear so, from 1998 :-)
Thank you for addressing it!
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