Comment 13 for bug 80635

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Matt Day (fjarlq) wrote :

I just solved this issue for my users on my Ubuntu system... my two cents:

1) Complaint was: terminal sessions freezing up once in a blue moon.
     Finally I figured out they had just typoed ^S

2) To fix this I created a script: /usr/local/bin/default-stty
     which I run from /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login

3) I'm surprised there is no standard way to set default tty settings for all users.
     It would be handy if there was some config file for this, e.g. /etc/termios.defaults
     Not sure exactly where it belongs. Does any flavor of Unix have this option?

4) For example, I also want everybody to "stty echok". Just a preference of mine.

5) This is not a bash problem. Really this comes down to an inability to customize
     the TTYDEF_* values in the Linux kernel's sys/ttydefaults.h
     without recompiling the kernel. Maybe it should be a sysctl setting at least?

6) So, this bug should be moved to wherever Linux kernel config feature requests belong.
     Is there such a category in Ubuntu/debian?