Purpose of Telnetd keep_stdio feature?

[Chris Johns]

On 9/10/18 5:15 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 01/10/2018 08:26, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the Telentd has a keep_stdio configuration option:
>>
>>   /**
>>    * @brief Keep standard IO of the caller.
>>    *
>>    * Telnet takes over the standard input, output and error associated with
>>    * task, if this parameter is set to @c true.  In this case, it will @b not
>>    * listen on any sockets.  When this parameter is @c false, Telnet will
>>    * create other tasks for the shell which listen on sockets.
>>    */
>>   bool keep_stdio;
>>
>> What is the use case of this feature? Can I remove it?
>>
> 
> I will remove this functionality to simplify the Telnet service:
> 
> https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3542
> 

Sounds great Thank you for doing this.

Chris