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- Submitted-by: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
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- I want to read up to 4096 characters from the terminal in
- non-canonical mode. I want to wait until the characters arrive (with
- a timeout). It seems sensible to me to set MIN to the number of
- characters I want to read and use alarm for a timeout. But what is
- the maximum value that I can set MIN to on a POSIX system? Does the
- standard specify this anywhere? On System V the maximum is probably
- 255, but it's pretty easy to imagine an implementation for which the
- maximum is 127. I assume the maximum value is <= MAX_INPUT; are there
- any other constraints? I've only seen the 1988 copy of the standard,
- so apologies if this is covered in the 1990 revision.
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