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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: TTY line discipline
Message-ID: <3737@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 18:22:13 GMT
References: <2026@beam.UUCP> <139@comtst.UUCP>
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >Once signal processing is turned off with ~SIG, the input characters
 >are not checked for the INTR, SWITCH, and QUIT characters. Similarly,
 >when cannonical is turned off with ~ICANON, no checks are made for the
 >ERASE and KILL characters. the input characters are now unchecked and
 >reads will be satified directly from the input buffer subject to the
 >limitation that no read will be satisfied until 
 >	1) At least MIN characters have been received AND
 >	2) The timeout value TIME has expired ***BETWEEN CHARACTERS***
 >Note that there is no timeout for the initial character. This is important!

All correct, except that if MIN is 0, TIME *is* a timeout for the
initial character.

However, the problem he's having is that his system does *not* appear to
be completely correctly implementing the above semantics!  Instead, it
appears to be swallowing NUL characters for some reason.