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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: PD Streams pty implementation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.220110.20969@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug19.171624.3598@candle.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:01:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.171624.3598@candle.uucp>, root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:
- > I just installed a PD non-streams pty implementation that works quite
- > well, but you can't poll() on the pty's, which can be a problem. My
- > poll() only works on streams, and I have no select().
- >
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- I think you've just uncovered another marvellous implementation detail
- of System V.3; you can't poll a socket and you can't select a stream.
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- System V -- the last word in interoperability.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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