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From: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: troubles with non-blocking reads from stdin on ISC 2.2 pseudo ttys
Keywords: ISC pty read stdin non-blocking ioctl
Message-ID: <104@esacs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 19:28:49 GMT
References: <88@esacs.UUCP> <1991Feb11.045248.3613@buster.stafford.tx.us>
Reply-To: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi(JANE))
Organization: Esa Software s.r.l. Rimini (FO), ITALY
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In article <1991Feb11.045248.3613@buster.stafford.tx.us> rli@buster.stafford.tx.us writes:

>You should not set VTIME and VMIN to zero!  Instead, you should be using
>the terminal control flag O_NDELAY. 

OK, I'll give it a try. But what makes me wonder is the fact that the way
I handle the problem always *works* except when I'm running on a pty!!
Could someone tell me why this happens?


Rick

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