Re: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:38:43PM -0700, Joseph Galbraith wrote:
> Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> > On Monday, January 02, 2006 05:30:34 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams
> > <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost> wrote:
> >> Did you switch local/remote here?
> > 
> > Nope.  If I type 'stty iutf8', stty does an ioctl on the pty slave on
> > the remote machine (the ssh server).  My expectation is that sshd will
> > notice the change, propagate it down the wire, and my ssh client will
> > make the same ioctl on my terminal (assuming, of course, that both
> > terminals support the bit).
> 
> I don't think this currently happens with any of the bits; the
> term bits (if I recall correctly) are sent only from client to
> server when the pty is requested.  I don't believe there
> is currently a way on the wire for either the or the server
> to change their values after the pty is requested.

Correct.  The client has to put its terminal into raw, echoff mode in
order to let the pty on the server side handle stty settings on the
remote side correctly.