>Number:         9427
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       man page on ttys wrt rtscts/mdmbuf/dtrcts misleading
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 15 18:45:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John P. Refling
>Organization:
LBNL
>Release:        14P/19991223
>Environment:
sparc

>Description:
The man page for ttys is wrong or misleading in
that it implies that the flags rtscts/mdmbuf/dtrcts
can be set with a 'kill -s HUP 1'.  I tried this
over and over, logged in and out, etc, etc, and no
combination would change the state of my tty (as
shown by 'stty -a'.

I had to reboot.  I verified this pretty carefully,
even though one of the flags has no effect on sparc
at all.  (This should also be documented in the
man page).  I also understand the order is critical,
which should be documented too.



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