Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

From: Herman Oosthuysen (Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 18:06:21 EST


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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