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From: stevea@i88.isc.com (Steve Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pty bugs & features
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.150443.2742@i88.isc.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 15:04:43 GMT
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In article <3954@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Yet it is worthless for user purposes if you can't make it infinite.  Why
>>can't you change this number?
>
>Ask AT&T, it was their idea.  I think I tried to sell them on having an
>"ioctl" to change it at one point.

System V Release 4.0 has the I_SETCLTIME ioctl, which allows one to change
the close wait time on the stream.  I believe that the time is specified
in milliseconds.  There is also I_GETCLTIME which does what you'd expect.
I guess Guy should move into sales...

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