Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:06:21 -0600 | From | Herman Oosthuysen <> | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? |
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Wow, the tty layer is probably the oldest piece of surviving Unix code, so ICANON is a true religious artifact... ;-)
Alan Cox wrote: >>>The proper word seems to be "canonize". >> >>Um, no -- that means `to make a saint.' > > > Means both. Its actually common Unixism since 1970's and probably pre > unix too. Even the tty layer enshrines it (there another reused > religious word 8)) - the normal mode is ICANON >
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