Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RS6000
Message-ID: <5186@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:52:39 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.214122.9506@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Jan11.064733.28335@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Have you heard about the 'hidden' 3 character buffer when doing interprocess
>communication. Set up a socket. Write it so it will gnaw on the chars and then
>spit them back to the client. You'll notice you have to press 4 keys to see
>the first character you typed. (This may have been fixed since 3.001)

What I'd heard about that made it sound as if you needed a tty, not a
socket (you *did* say "first character you typed"; one generally types
characters into ttys or pseudo-ttys, not sockets); it sounded like they
just didn't set a couple of tty parameters right when going into
uncooked mode.  I'd also seen indications that it was fixed.