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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: System calls: particularly checking if input is available on stdin
Message-ID: <3343@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:29:58 GMT
References: <1730@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1730@draken.nada.kth.se> matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman) writes:
>I know how to do it in both BSD and AT&T UNIX, but I can't find a fcntl
>function in libc.a (on MINIX-ST). I can find gtty and stty, but I can't find
>documentation about them anywhere. 

stty and gtty are just repackagings of ioctl, which is the standard V7 way to
control TTYs.  As to documentation, MINIX is more-or-less based on the V7
manual:
  The UNIX programmer's manual, Vols. 1-2
  Bell Labs
  Published by Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1983
  ISBN 0-03-061742-1

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)