set x=`stty speed` still fails on Ultrix 4.1

Ian! D. Allen [CGL] idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Wed Jan 30 18:30:59 AEST 1991


Another Ultrix bug I thought would have been fixed years ago.

  % set x=`stty speed`
  stty: : Not a typewriter

This happens because stty normally does its ioctl's on stdout and prints
on stderr.  The other Unix systems I use are smart enough to fiddle with
the units so that you can use `stty speed` to actually find out the baud
rate of your tty in a shell script.  You'll find that no combination of
i/o redirection (even using units in /bin/sh) will work on Ultrix.

This has been broken since at least Ultrix 2.1.  I made the obvious fix when
we had Ultrix 3.1 source.  I guess I'll make the same fix on Ultrix 4.1.

Never get Unix without source!
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
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