Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Herbert, please help Jeff try to track down the cause of this.
> If we can't figure it out soon I'll have to revert.

Why is there even any discussion?

URG is broken as a concept, no sane/modern use case exists. It's totally 
uninteresting _except_ as a "legacy binary" issue, so

 - there's no point in trying to "improve" it.

 - even just a whiff of "breaks legacy app" just says "revert it".

No?

		Linus
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