by ceasing to listen on input channels if the corresponding output
channel isn't accepting data. Has had basic check-I-didn't-actually-
break-anything-too-badly testing, but hasn't been genuinely tested
in stress conditions (because concocting stress conditions is non-
trivial).
[originally from svn r1198]
version allows you to specify, per socket, which sockets receive OOB
data in-line (so that you know what was before the mark and what was
after) and which receive it out of line (so it's really a one-byte
out-of-band facility rather than discard-to-mark). This reflects the
fact that rlogin appears to make more sense in the latter mode, and
telnet in the former. This patch makes rlogin work right for me.
[originally from svn r921]
multiple switchable line disciplines, we now have a single unified
one which changes its behaviour based on option settings. Each
option setting can be suggested by the back end and/or the terminal
handler, and can be forcibly overridden by the configuration. Local
echo and local line editing are separate, independently switchable,
options.
[originally from svn r895]
automatic fatalbox(). Instead, the error is passed to the receiver
routine, which can decide just how fatal the problem really is.
[originally from svn r894]
