> Somewhere in either getty or login (I forget which), there is a routine
> which ends up forcing a particular set of modes on the serial line just
> before exec'ing the shell; one of the particular set of modes is 7-bit
> stripping.

It's ttydefaults() in getty (ttydefaults.c, called from main.c).  I don't
understand why getty does this.  If the tty attributes getty uses to get
the login username work, why does getty change them before exec'ing login?

Jan

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