Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:27:20 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC |
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:01:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > However, util-linux still resets it to ^O on any architecture, > > ^O is the historical value, kernel ignores it anyway and finally, > > Linus said "Just change everybody to do the same, nobody cares > > about VDISCARD". > > Heh. Grepping for DISCARD_CHAR() shows that there literally doesn't > seem to be any user. > > I guess some user space program could care what the initial value is, > but it seems very unlikely.
Quite, especially since those programs would have to run before getty gets a chance to reset the sucker to ^O...
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