< said:
> Does POSIX now specify select() and/or poll() precisely enough to
> show that the current behaviour is wrong?
In addition to more explicit requirements for sockets, draft 6 has the
following to say about select() and pselect():
A descriptor shall be considered ready for readin
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < said:
>
> > ie: FIONREAD will succeed from a backgrounded process, but the
> > data read itself with hang (tty driver).
>
> You are describing a general property of the terminal subsystem, which
> any process dealing with terminals needs to be
< said:
> ie: FIONREAD will succeed from a backgrounded process, but the
> data read itself with hang (tty driver).
You are describing a general property of the terminal subsystem, which
any process dealing with terminals needs to be aware of.
(AFAIK, ioctl(tty, FIONREAD, &n) should set n t
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < said:
>
> >I've been doing some tty related work and found the FIO*
> > requests don't seem to be documented.
>
> >I've added some reasonable doc to tty.4 and put up the
> > the diff and html forms:
>
> As the initial letter suggests, the
Hi,
I wondered about this. However, after looking around what
I found was that the FIO* requests seemed to be documented
in driver pages (and only a handful at that), and not
documented with ioctl.
Since I don't want to change the other existing driver
man pages, what if I add generic docu
