This one fixes more in util-linux-2.5 as well. I suspect it shouldn't
be necessary. It starts to look to me like TCGETA may not return the
correct values. Looking at linux/include/asm-alpha/termios.h, we find
that trans_to_termio() sets the _VMIN and _VTIME entries *only* if the
ICANON flag is set in c_lflag whereas the x86 version always copies
everything unconditionally.
> Then I noticed that ioctl() was called with (sometimes) a pointer to a
> `struct termio' as 3rd argument, while (on Linux/Alpha/BLADE_0.3)
> the Vxx array indexes differed beetween termio.c_cc[] and termios.c_cc[]
> ... and in system headers VMIN * & co are overriden to suit the
> `struct termio' variants only when <termio.h> is included ... and it's
> not the case in more.c.
termio and termios are not compatible on Linux/Alpha (in fact, you get
an error message when trying to include both header files). As long
as one sticks with one or the other, everything will (should) work
fine though. So the real bug may have been that the old more.c
included termios.h when it should have included termio.h (this is
correct in the version distributed by Red Hat).
BTW: I suspect that the reason for xterm to start up with bad tty
settings to be the same problem: including termios and using termio or
some such.
--david
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