diff -Nru busybox-orig/shell/cmdedit.c busybox/shell/cmdedit.c
--- busybox-orig/shell/cmdedit.c	Wed Mar 19 10:12:52 2003
+++ busybox/shell/cmdedit.c	Fri Apr  4 19:50:48 2003
@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@
 	new_settings.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;        /* unbuffered input */
 	/* Turn off echoing and CTRL-C, so we can trap it */
 	new_settings.c_lflag &= ~(ECHO | ECHONL | ISIG);
-#ifndef linux
+#if (defined(__sparc__) && defined(linux)) || ! defined(linux)
 	/* Hmm, in linux c_cc[] not parsed if set ~ICANON */
 	new_settings.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
 	new_settings.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;