backspace at login prompt shown as 2 backspace

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Hi

Jan Richert wrote:
> mgetty 0.97
> linux 1.2.11
> 
> Problem: If some characters are typed at login prompt and backspace
>          is pressed TWO characters are erased for each time bs is pressed.
> 
> This problem didn't exist with mgetty 0.22 in the same environment.

Hmmm. I changed something in there, that's right. I *know* that I still
didn't get the backspacing on Linux completely right, but I'm afraid that
to *get* it right, I'll have to rewrite the terminal handling of login.c
*sigh*.

Damn backspace/erase/stty echoe semantics :(

gert
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