freedman@mips2.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) (08/09/90)
I hope this is the correct group - my apologies if not.
I have a question about the design of the *rex - on* protocol
The rpc calls to fire up an interactive program remotely are
RPC_START (which forks and execs etc) and then an RPC_MODES
which fiddles with the modes of the pty-tty set up. Now, if
the program you wish to start up gets to the tty and fiddles
with it before the RPC_MODES call does you can get some
strange terminal behavior.(I see this behavior regularly).
The question I have is this - Am I missing something?
Is there a reason things are done this way? (yes I know
there are fixes)
Jerry Freedman,Jr