On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:40AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > You could do that... during development series. But this is > userspace-visible API change, and those are not allowed during stable. > > ...and having /sysctl configuring inital state for reset is just plain > ugly. Well, how else would you suggest to do it? Bearing in mind all other terminal emulators (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and so on) all have other out-of-band ways to determine this - config files, menu options, locale variables,... None of those are particularlly viable for the kernel. I vote this is the closest thing we've got. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans [email protected] ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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