> subsystem. So the processing that was handled by the 'ldterm' module on
> other OSs now has to be handled by the available line disciplines in the
> Linux kernel. While browsing the source I noticed that the default line
Linux is based on the BSD codebase. The streams disaster was one we chose
to skip over and ignore
> discipline N_TTY is probably sufficient to do the job but I am not sure
> of the hooks. I am wondering if I can invoke the default line discipline
> somehow or would I have to implement the canonical processing all over
> again.
Canonical processing is always part of the tty driver. The POSIX
tcsetattr/tcgetattr calls let you configure which parts of it you need
(eg line processing, echo, character by character input etc)
Alan
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