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- Subject: Re: Real TIOCSETP
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 21:25:12 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <199403210746.CAA13867@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Mar 21, 94 2:46 am
- Message-Id: <9403212025.AA00119@jelal.north.de>
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- Nicholas S Castellano writes:
-
- > >From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- > >Nicholas S Castellano writes:
- > >> tty.c, file.h, xbios.c: ++entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- > >> Add a real TIOCSETP (differs from TIOCSETN in that it waits for
- > >> the output buffer to be empty if the device supports TIOCOUTQ.)
- > >> Remove a kludge in rsconf() which is not needed if a real TIOCSETP
- > >> exists.
- > >
- > > problem: with this patch old programs can hang in TIOCSETN because
- > >then they really get TIOCSETP... and you usually only set an alarm for
- > >TIOCSETP not TIOCSETN.
- >
- > Well if you think it's important,
-
- well there are some people who always want binary distributions :) and
- then i prefer to have binaries work on old and later kernels...
-
- > maybe the definitions in file.h
- > should be swapped, such that any old program will get TIOCSETN and you
- > can recompile stuff to get the new TIOCSETP...
-
- ok, looks like that works. (for me.)
- >
- > I recompile stuff all the time, so I don't usually notice stuff like
- > this :-)
-
- oh yes everyone should have a working compiler, that would make so many
- things easier...
-
- cheers
- Juergen
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