Re: how to invoke canonical processing in kernel

[Alan Cox]

> subsystem. So the processing that was handled by the 'ldterm' module on
> other OSs now has to be handled by the available line disciplines in the
> Linux kernel. While browsing the source I noticed that the default line

Linux is based on the BSD codebase. The streams disaster was one we chose
to skip over and ignore

> discipline N_TTY is probably sufficient to do the job but I am not sure
> of the hooks. I am wondering if I can invoke the default line discipline
> somehow or would I have to implement the canonical processing all over
> again.

Canonical processing is always part of the tty driver. The POSIX 
tcsetattr/tcgetattr calls let you configure which parts of it you need
(eg line processing, echo, character by character input etc)

Alan