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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: v07i001:  ularn - ultra-larn, an enhancement of the larn adventure game, Part01/08
Message-ID: <2228@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Jul 89 17:55:30 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I could not compile this on my (SYSV) 3b1, because gcc could not find
>TCIFLUSH.  Neither could I.  What am I missing here.
>
>BTW, what's tcflush()?  It's the function being called with the above
>symbol, but I don't know anything else.

Wow.  Does this mean "ularn" is one of the first programs ever written
to the POSIX interface?  Unfortunately, since I don't know how many
systems have implemented that interface yet but think the answer is
"very few, if any", the author may be jumping the gun a bit....

Instead of having "ioctl()", POSIX introduced functions for various
"ioctl" functions; "tcflush()" is the function for the TCFLSH "ioctl". 
They also introduced defined constants instead of the small integers
used by those "ioctl"s; TCIFLUSH is "flush the input queue", i.e. 0.

So

	tcflush(fd, TCIFLUSH)

is equivalent to

	ioctl(fd, TCFLSH, 0)

and returns the same value (0 on success, -1 on error after setting
"errno").